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Re:Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2... by lend000 on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:42PM (#27032776)
I thought the whole point was that they don't own the land, only lease it.
Re:Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2... by photojosh on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:08PM (#27033650)
Yes. Henry George basically said it's too hard (utopian?) to just switch to everyone leasing their land, so a land value tax is a pragmatic approximation that still allows for the traditional sense of property ownership.