amablue

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by amablue 5y ago
If we are going full Georgist, yes, even the government would pay taxes on its own land, which includes the land for roads and railways.
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by amablue 5y ago
For what it's worth, it's not uncommon for Georgists to also favor extraction taxes for natural resources like gold.
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by amablue 5y ago
The Georgist answer is that the government wouldn't decide the value of the land, the market would. If the government is setting it, it's almost certainly not pricing it optimally.
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by amablue 5y ago
Land is taxed at very low rates, and it's almost always bundled with property taxes. Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%. That's a huge difference from what we have in play today.
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by amablue 5y ago
I once heard someone say that land value taxes would be worth it even if we burned the tax revenue . I almost agree with that. The point of land value taxes is not just that it raises money, it's so the downstream effects. We want it
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by amablue 6y ago
I've written one small open source library, which I publicized a little bit back when I first released it. Like you said, I wrote it mostly to scratch my own itch, but it was really nice to see it get some use out in the wild, and I ha
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by amablue 9y ago
Empirically, this does not happen. It's a company of like 70,000 employees. You're not going to be able to guess the people involved when the company is that size. Maybe if it was a company on the order of 100s of people you'