Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value

Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by WorkerBee28474 on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:34PM (#37908661)

The government didn't create it either. The only reasonable recipient of the 2%/year tax is God.

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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by Gigachad on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:51PM (#37908832)

At the core of it, land ownership is really about who has the resources to defend it.

Since you are relying on the government and surrounding society to defend the land, it’s up to society to define how that ownership works.

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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by quickthrower2 on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:26PM (#37909158)

The government is meant to represent the commons.

God doesn’t need money. Money is a human concept!

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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by epistasis on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:18PM (#37910149)

As someone who is kept off of that land by somebody else's ownership of it, I am personally the reasonable recipient of a share of that 2%. As is everyone else, including the owner of the land.

That share could come as government services, or it could come as a paycheck. But in either case that 2% belongs to all of us equally.

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