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Pretty much all of that I had never heard of and many of them looked decent so I figured I would share.

To me zoning is the biggest unacknowledged flaw with a land use tax because, as an example, my land my be worth 1 million if it is limited to single family, or it may be worth 20 million if only my land is rezoned to build a high rise, or it may be worth 5 million if all the land is rezoned to allow highrises. I'm not convinced at all that the biggest problem or even the major problem is how we tax land, which could address a few marginal pieces of land, when literally all the land use is negatively affected by zoning. It feels a lot like complaining someone didn't trim their hedges when their house is on fire.

refresher course on reality: you want these views out in public so you can publicly ridicule the people expressing them. You send them to jail they learn from the real criminals how to be really criminal with their views and come out worse than before. That these views are taking hold more and more now tells you there is a legitimate problem not being addressed and either the view is some shade of correct or, more likely, the view is an incorrect solution to the actual problem that won't work. Either way you have to figure it out and fix it. Repressing the view just makes the eventual result more violent without solving the underlying issue causing the view