| ▲ | blfr 4 hours ago |
| Land value tax is interesting because it encourages/forces more efficient use but you can do a lot more by cutting demand through limiting immigration and financialization opportunities. |
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| ▲ | Avicebron 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I'm not sure why people don't immediately get serfdom vibes whenever they mention a land tax. |
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| ▲ | Aarostotle 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s the same reason people don’t get serfdom vibes when a government proposes to take over childcare. Governments buying goods for people with tax money turns them into dependents, sometimes permanently. It’s easy to overlook that. | |
| ▲ | balamatom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Probably because most of us are already unlanded serfs, except we also get vibes now. Yay, 1000 years of progress! |
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