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> they own huge parts of the country And they would keep owning them if they were made to abdicate
by arlort 4y ago
> they own huge parts of the country
And they would keep owning them if they were made to abdicate
- basisword 4y agoOnly if we let them.
- simonh 4y agoWe could always confiscate your property while we're at it. Every little helps. After all there can be few on this forum that aren't in the upper decile of wealth globally. Property is theft! (er, kidding in case that wasn't obvious)
- nicoburns 4y agoThe more pressing issue with land ownership in the UK is that we don't even know who owns large chunks of it.
- MockObject 4y agoAmerican here. How is that a pressing issue?
- dane-pgp 4y agoIt makes it harder to introduce a land value tax, I guess?
- eadmund 4y agoDoes it? Seems like if the State doesn't know who owns a piece of land, it can just auction it off.
- dane-pgp 4y agoIf the state were so keen to serve the interests of the public, it would have auctioned off this land already, regardless of whether a land value tax had popular support. I suppose I'm hoping that if people knew who really owned the country, and who would be the winners and losers of a LVT, there would be such strong support for one that it would be politically untenable to oppose it.
- MockObject 4y agoIf the state really doesn't know who owns a piece of land, what's stopping someone from squatting? Wouldn't the owner have to prove ownership to the state, to activate law enforcement?