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Re:Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealth... by carradjm on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:54PM (#15228975)
Why should we want to tax income? If you tax something, you inherently affect the supply of it. I.e. taxing labor (income tax) will make people want to work less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

We need to implement a land-value tax, if simply because taxing land does nothing to change the supply of land. Unless America decides to invade Mexico anytime soon, the value of land will not change.

I responded to another post in this thread with a link on Georgism as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax).

I see Georgism occasionally advocated for on Hacker News but I really wish I would see more discussion on it. IMHO, it is the only sensible tax and the most fair tax that economists have thought up.

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Re:Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealth... by twoquestions on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:11PM (#15229774)
It looks excellent at first blush, but calculating the value of land seems distinctly non-trivial even for honest assessors. For less than perfect people, this highly charged calculation could become a huge political football.
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