Re: Land Value Tax News

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:32:24 -0700, "Phil Scott"
<philscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>property tax is the last refuge.

Your desire to prevent anyone from thinking about land as distinct
from improvements or other property is noted.

>Of course with jobs cut back, tax on property with no income
>is just going to drive that entire sector south... it will not
>serve to increase productive use sufficiently to offset the
>damage of over taxation.

That claim is false and groundless, and has been disproved by _every_
historical example of land taxation. Every single one.

>Especially as the worked to death middle class will have to
>work even harder to pay for it... the rich will simply find
>loopholes... or run up the rents on their middle class
>tennants to pay the added tax.

They can't unless the land tax exceeds the land rent -- which a tax on
land value can't. This is a fact of economics that has been known for
nearly 200 years.

-- Roy L
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Roy on Feldstein on Ricardo
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  • Re: Is there an (objective) definition of wealth?
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  • Re: Wal-Mart and Wages?
    ... >>land to pay, you must build a society and survival based on accepting ... > There is no doubt I can find his land. ... But his brother that is the tax man, and nephew that is the city marshall ... not, you couldn't get the people in charge to DO THIER JOB, why can't you ...
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  • Re: Land tax -- denying the market matters (Re: better tax code: no income tax, head tax (&#
    ... Of course, supply is the amount of something *brought to market*, not ... always throw about on the potential virtues of a land tax. ... The Georgist claim is that land tax is superior to taxes on labor, ... labor) does not respond to price. ...
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  • Re: Income inequality benefits the poor.
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