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Re:Georgism by sokoloff on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:07AM (#37570137)
The upthread point of controversy was whether this scheme would be a negative for anybody. I think I've shown that there are people for whom it would be a negative (at a minimum, increasing the risk of a current holding with no offsetting increase in return in the success case).

If you disagree, that's OK, but there's probably no way to make further progress in resolving that disagreement beyond a back-and-forth of "nuh-uh, yuh-huh".

Re:Georgism by db48x on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:03PM (#37571945)
Oh, ok. So you’re saying that changing tax systems would change the equilibrium, and some people might call that a harm. But that’s true of any major change, even if the new equilibrium is better for most people. It’s more of a fact about the _change_ than about what you changed to.
Re:Georgism by sokoloff on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:14PM (#37572136)
Yes. There are actual bondholders and pension holders right now who would be harmed by the change to a land-value taxation scheme.