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Re:Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) by closeparen on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:30PM (#44534888)
Georgism holds that productive economic activity gets absorbed into land value.
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Re:Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:13PM (#44535891)
Georgism was designed in a completely different economy. Google's productive activity has very little to do with the land it owns.
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Re:Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) by closeparen on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:05PM (#44536329)
Google's productive activity mostly accrues to NIMBY homeowners in the Bay Area rather than the material living standards of anyone connected with Google.
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Re:Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:09PM (#44536354)
That statement seems clearly wrong to me. Google's productive activity is benefiting NIMBY homeowners rather than, say, the owners of Alphabet stock? I'm going to need to see some evidence before I believe that.
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