wjmaggos, 8 days ago to random

I strongly support switching from standard property taxes (where improving your property costs you more money over time) to a #LandValueTax that encourages density and less vacant lots. Where public investment does less to reward the insiders who know what land will be much more valuable tomorrow. But in most areas, it should be phased in slowly.
https://www.vox.com/24025379/detroit-land-value-tax-lvt-property-tax-housing-vacant-blight

gcvsa, 3 months ago to medical

Restrictive #zoning practices are part of the problem, but they are not by any means the primary cause of the #HousingCrisis.

Zoning alone doesn't explain why more #development and #redevelopment isn't happening in places where zoning already permits it.

These are the places that are in high demand—city and town centers that already have #multiunit, #multistory, #MixedUse #MissingMiddle buildings.

The other shoes are #tax #policy and economic outlook.

#urbanism #LVT #LandValueTax #USpol

sccook, 4 months ago to cymru

Council Tax is one of the UK's most regressive taxes, but there's good news from #Wales. The devolved government in Wales is planning to reform Council Tax, and has ambitions to eventually replace it with a Land Value Tax. This sounds excellent, and all progressive parties in other parts of the UK should be adopting similar policies.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/30/wales-council-tax-england-real-levelling-up

#georgism #LandValueTax

Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value (www.economist.com)

If you tax blight, will you get less of it?

risottobias, 11 months ago to random

wait, #monopoly originally had a second rule set called prosperity that demonstrated #Georgism and #LandValueTax?

I want the rules to that game :D

mostly for demonstrating how the mechanics of ownership and rentals and taxes and stuff are open to change and that the world doesn't have to be that way

similar things with socialism and giving players a gateway drug to "what if the employees decided"

or "what if landlords and stock holders, bankers, and venture capitalists... didn't exist?"