Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)

Re:Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2... by unishark on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:29AM (#27034077)

> Why is this bad? They are now being very efficient with the use of their land. They have taken less of a rivalrous resource from the rest of society but have managed to shape it to their satisfaction.

Their point of contention was in it not also being a progressive tax. So I guess they want the rich to pay more tax even if they use less of the taxed resource.

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Re:Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2... by dan-robertson on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:22AM (#27035524)

I don’t really want to argue about whether or not a progressive tax is good (the dual meaning of the word can make that difficult.) There is a claim that a land value tax is progressive, that is, the effective tax rate increases as one’s means increase, and I don’t really believe that claim. So “this is good [even though it is a case of the tax being regressive]” is irrelevant to the question.

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