Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
by _heimdall on Friday June 14, 2024 @07:46AM
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Sure there are ways it could technically be implemented, but that doesn't say whether it should be implemented. Why is an LVT inheritly good for us? And is it so good that we should trick the public into not realizing a new tax was forced on them and the government was stealing more of their money?
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Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
by MostlyStable on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:11PM
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There are more than enough words spilled on the first topic by better writers than myself. If you click around the archives of the substack the linked article is from, you will find plenty. As for the second point: usually LVT is proposed as a more efficient alternative to current taxes, not as an entirely new tax on top of all the currently existing taxes.
In fact, there are people in this thread (inaccurately) accusing the author of being a "single taxer", since there are some Georgists who believe that an LVT could potentially be the only tax.