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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by zdragnar on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:22AM (#37910580)
How ironic that a campaign with "free land" in the slogan treated land as a public commodity and sought to make land the entire basis of the government's tax income.
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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by letmeinhere on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:37PM (#37917728)
Only ironic to those whose concept of "freedom" is "private and enclosed".
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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by zdragnar on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:48PM (#37921383)
If your idea is that free means that it is something the government taxes, then I don't think I'd care for what the other two parts of the slogan (free speech and free men) might mean.

If you mean "free use" then land and speech are okay, but I still don't like the idea being applied to people.

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