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Re:Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax la... by michael1999 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:35PM (#37917697)
To tax is to discourage. We don't want to discourage work. We don't want to discourage housing. But land (by definition) can not be produced. Taxing land does not discourage anything except hoarding.
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