• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Agreed, and this would be solved by sufficiently high land value tax - if wasn’t profitable to be a landlord nobody would do it and the price of land would decline sharply. Henry George saw all of this coming a long time ago.

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      4 months ago

      First time I’ve heard of the idea of a separate land value tax… Frankly it seems like an awesome idea, especially for cities.

      I imagine it would make dense housing more profitable than McMansions, and punish the NIMBYs who keep standing in the way of affordable housing. Maybe we could make the tax increase significantly with the number of properties an individual owns and start it at the highest rate for things like shell corps and LLCs.