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Re:The missing profits of nations by ThrustVectoring on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:36PM (#17620280)
Agreed. This is one of the reasons why a land-value tax is so good, in my opinion. Pretty much all of the burden of the tax is placed on landlords - if they could raise rents, they'd have already done so, so the tax pretty much entirely comes from the unearned value generated by holding the right to use a piece of land.
Re:The missing profits of nations by leetcrew on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:13AM (#17625365)
LVT is very appealing from the theoretical perspective. i would very much like to see it play out at scale somewhere. unfortunately, while it is fairly easy to add new taxes, you rarely see a new tax substituted for an old one.