Re:Redfin Economist says land value tax will fix the economy
by SllX on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:10AM
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Ah, in that case you should have just said so.
We are fundamentally at odds then with irreconcilable differences of opinion on private property. The protection of private property is a core justification for the State, because as I replied to you elsewhere, private property doesn’t cease without the State but the situation around it becomes more volatile. I do not seek to re-base the State on the socialization of land value and you probably couldn’t with an extreme amount of State violence.
I don't think I am. Rather, I think our disconnect is that I disagree with your implication that fully internalizing the negative externalities produced by the ownership of land as property is a "nebulous other social goal".
The endgoal - i.e. the full internalization of those opportunity costs externalized onto every other member of society - is 100% LVT with all surpluses disbursed evenly as a citizens' dividend (a.k.a. "UBI" in more modern parlance). Anything short of that is theft by landowners from everyone else (including other landowners, but especially those without land at all); the question is how much theft the general public will continue to tolerate, and for how much longer.