soberpeach

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   by soberpeach 5y ago

   Property taxes tax buildings as well, a Land Value Tax is purely a tax on the land and doesn't change whether you have a building on it or not.
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   by soberpeach 5y ago

   It depends how the wealth tax is implemented. European wealth taxes were primarily on capital like stocks, which are extremely easy to move, even easier than income. A wealth tax on land (an LVT) is literally impossible to avoid however sin
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   by soberpeach 5y ago

   It shows xfce4-terminal
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   by soberpeach 5y ago

   Regarding your comment about approval, isn't that the intended outcome? You elect the candidate that the most people approve of, regardless of whether or not there are other "stronger" candidates. The population would be bett
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   by soberpeach 6y ago

   It's not a property tax (which taxes the building and the land), it's only a land value tax. So if you have a $300,000 house, it's not going to tax 2.5% of the $300,000 house, just the $50,000 worth of land it sits on.