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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by harimau777 on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:59PM (#37908911)
I think that you may be missing the point of the argument that you are replying to. As I understand it, what they are getting at is that no one created the land, it was already here. Therefore, it's not valid to say that the person who originally claimed the land had a right to it in the same sense that, for example, a farmer has a right to what they grow because of the labor they put into growing it.

In effect, the argument is that since land was not created by anyone then no one has any more right to it than anyone else. So the land's value should be shared among all of society; which is precisely what a Land Value Tax seeks to do.

Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:18PM (#37909084)
Well, in the US at least, the one who first claimed the land is the one who built a cabin there, often broke the land to the plow, and then held it against anyone who tried to take it from them. It wasn't just "claiming" the land. They had to work to improve it.
Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by eru on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:38PM (#37909286)
Conveniently ignoring the people who might have lived there before for millennia?

Or even just the Mexicans from whom large parts of the US where conquered? (How Mexico got the land is another story.)

Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by flownoon on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:19AM (#37910905)
So LVT separates the value created by your labor (building the cabin, plowing, etc) from the value you did not create. I think its more just than taxing, i.e. cabins or crops.