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> Nothing should be given away forever. Government should auction all property (land plots) every 10 years too?

• was_a_dev 2y ago
  99 years or 999 years. AKA a leasehold
  • sokoloff 2y ago
    Those are quite different lengths in practice. 99 is less than some individual humans have lived. 999 is longer than any* country has continuously lived. If I have a 999 year leasehold, that's the same as ownership in practical terms as my ownership goes away when the government fails and is replaced/taken over/overthrown. In tech specifically, a 99 year lease is practically permanent as well. (1925 was before the first RF transmission of a television picture.) * Maybe Japan is an exception here.
    • actionfromafar 2y ago
      Contenders: Denmark, Hungary, China, Czechia, France, England and a bunch of others depending on how you count, like Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden etc.
      • lesuorac 2y ago
        Nobodys claiming no group of people lived in Denmark, Hungary, China, etc for 999+ years. They're claiming none of their governements is over 999 years old. Denmark's constitution is from 1849 [1]. Hungary's constitution is from 1949 / 1989 [2]. China's government is form 1949 (when the previous government got overthrown and went to Taiwan) [3]. I'm not going through the whole list. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Government_and_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Government_and_politic... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Hungary [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_China
• londons_explore 2y ago
  Some countries kinda do this. Either by the government owning large chunks of the land and renting it to the citizens, or the government having large land taxes, which if unpaid the land reverts to the government.
• kaibee 2y ago
  Yes, we should have a Land Value Tax to replace income tax.