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georgeecollins 9 hours ago

That's a theoretical argument that is extremely rare in practice (at least in California). If you want to base your "ideas" of taxes (Do you own real estate?) on edge cases why not worry about eminent domain or property seizures without a warrant or charges being filed?

Why do people who have more income pay more taxes? Why do people with huge capital gains often pay very little? I think a good place to start thinking about these things is reading about why they had to call the Estates General in 1789.

JoshuaDavid 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> If you want to base your "ideas" of taxes (Do you own real estate?) on edge cases why not worry about eminent domain or property seizures without a warrant or charges being filed?

Particularly in the case of the latter example I would be pretty surprised to encounter someone in favor of both LVT and civil asset forfeiture. Are you sure this is a case of specific people having inconsistent policy preferences and not a case of a broad group containing people who hold incompatible views?