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by adverbly 2y ago
I actually think it's kind of a good sign that the policy was able to be passed without significant immediate disruptions. I have some pretty radical views about the benefits of land value taxes, but I don't think it's a good
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Do they suck at their jobs or do their jobs suck?
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Fair point! Love me some edge cases :D Let's call it 100% of the time in 99%+ of scenarios.
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Calculators do not accept ambiguous instructions and they work 100% of the time.
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They really should, but nobody listens to economists :( If they did, we'd have had a land value tax for a century by now...
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Like this: https://gameofrent.com/content/can-land-be-accurately-assess... Also, LVT has never been proposed with taxing 100% of the annual rental value of land. This means you do not need to be 100% accurate with your
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Ahh that makes sense then. Yep agreed! I got confused because I usually hear people refer to housing prices as property purchase prices, and housing costs to the continuous component. I would have phrased this: > For housing to stop incr
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by adverbly 2y ago
I think we disagree here then. The article you linked assumes no land value tax so I don't think it's relevant. My claim that land value tax would decrease property prices does admittedly depend on the tax rate. Do you dispute the
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Nope. The law is sometimes a large barrier, but there are plenty of places in the world with high housing costs which have minimal regulations. The problem is the cost of land. Developers are severely capital constrained. They take massive
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I like your creativity here but there have been actual calculations done around this and carving out provisions for tax exemptions is not necessary. Pragmatically speaking, a land value tax would be rolled out first by replacing property ta
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I don't think you disagree here... Zoning changes and land value tax are both beneficial. In some cases like the example you gave where you can only build one dwelling per 5 acres, zoning would be a more significant problem. That'
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I would have thought that is obvious. Chain of thought is clearly the right path forwards. People don't stare at a thing and immediately come to a solution. Without chain of thought, you are mostly dealing with a statistical regurgitat
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Correct. Thank you for clarifying. Just want to point out that this is different from your initial claim. > housing to stop INCREASING in price Land value tax would immediately start decreasing the housing price. You are correct that it
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> For housing to stop increasing in price, a lot of it has to be built. False. You can depress the land-based monopolistic component of housing via a land value tax. If speculating on land values stops being a good investment strategy, t
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I'd prefer a land value tax personally. Capital flight is a thing. Land isn't going anywhere. Economists including multiple Nobel laureates on both the left and right have been screaming for land value tax for almost a century for
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Land value tax would solve this.
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> rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate Anyone not familiar with it needs to look up Georgism. This transfer happens primarily via housing costs and rent payments. The stratification of the rich
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> * He doesn’t necessarily believe in fast takeoff AGI (just yet) This is so based... I would probably have given slow take off a 1% chance of happening 10 years ago, but today I'd put that somewhere like 30%.
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Same problem here... Trying to think of some substitutions: 1. Touch snow 2. See the sun while outdoors. 3. Say hi to someone in person. 4. Text a friend or family member. 5. Touch a tree. I think touch a tree would be the most direct subst
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Just wait until it's a million lines of AI slop nobody actually understood in the first place! That will surely make things better right?
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Well said. It's the complete opposite of a growth mindset. It's a sales mindset. Our society only wants to hear from con-men, and so (big surprise here) we tend to put literal con-men in leadership positions. I'd love to hear
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The vibe I get from these products is "oh boy - this can't be healthy". But bits like this: > His pet names and tender phrases—“How did you sleep, my love?”—landed gently, like a hand on my shoulder. I knew they were just
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OP was not claiming that all cars they produce are lemons. They were claiming that the customer service is terrible if you get one that is. > I have the opposite experience. Everything worked out of the box. You did not have the opposite
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I mean what you're saying sounds correct... But honestly, the whole point of the original study here was testing something that sounded correct, and it proved to be incorrect. So I have the same hypothesis as you, but the original stud
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It depends. I'd probably pick it for any medium complexity low traffic saas that doesn't have any crazy infra or ML or staffing requirements. It's a nice sweet spot for many companies. With high complexity you probably want s
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Land value tax! The more I sit with it's long-term policy implications, the more I think it would solve the lack of productivity, progress, and prosperity with modern society. It also has supporters from across the political spectrum b
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It switched at around 1,000 for me.
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I might have missed it, but doesn't it seem like the best option would have been to provide an option for both? Some people (especially of a certain generation) absolutely prefer calls. Seems best to just meet the customer where they&#
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I don't know enough about this particular situation, but I wonder if they considered raised pedestrian curb level roundabouts. They can be much better for things like this.
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Deferred tax payment. If someone is lucky enough to win the lottery by buying a pot of land for cheap and then seeing its value rise astronomically, they would be given the option to defer their tax payments until the sale of their profit w

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