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Re:Paying for Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached from Con... by carradjm on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:14AM (#15541668)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism.

Don't mean to boil down your entire well-written post to a single point, but I maintain that Georgism is the only sensible solution to this problem.

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Re:Paying for Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached from Con... by clairity on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:12PM (#15543199)
i'm not familiar with Georgism, but i do agree that the land value tax should be a primary taxing mechanism for a property-ownership economic system (like ours in the US). it's progressive, fair, and according to the wikipedia article, doesn't get passed on to renters.
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