Re:Self-Funding Harberger Taxes
by vintermann on Thursday December 05, 2024 @10:34AM
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I'm pretty sure most artists will hate your guts if you force them to admit the real commercial value of their work.
In the case of a Harberger copyright tax, there's an obvious equilibrium - anyone who seriously values their copyright has a strong incentive to err on the side of caution and pay taxes based on a high valuation, while lots of copyrights with negligible value are voluntarily abandoned due to the costs of both the tax and the administrative burden. The difficult cases in the middle would primarily affect speculators with large portfolios of copyrights of questionable value, which is an entirely desirable outcome. We could still drive socially desirable outcomes with very low taxation rates, because a very large proportion of copyrighted works have essentially zero commercial value.
Creating a streamlined registration, valuation and purchasing platform is entirely within the wit of man.
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