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Re:U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule by maxsilver on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:35PM (#18995094)
The biggest current roadblock to urbanization is the insanely high cost of living in cities, and your solution to this is to add an up-to-1200% land value tax?

This would be a really quick way to force working class people to live even further away from the city than they already are.

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Re:U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule by socialist_coder on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:09AM (#18995928)
Yes, I believe the goal is to kill the low density housing with 2 parking spaces per unit. For mass transit to truly work, we need more density.
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Re:U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule by dr_dshiv on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:07AM (#18996611)
Why we subsidize low density suburbs is beyond me.

We need to stop pretending roads are free and trains/trams are subsidized. Government plays an essential role in transportation. People should pay for the roads they drive, income adjusted. That's healthier capitalism, because the prices are clear and better mobility = better markets.

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