[carradjm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism.

Don't mean to boil down your entire well-written post to a single point, but I maintain that Georgism is the only sensible solution to this problem.

[clairity]

i'm not familiar with Georgism, but i do agree that the land value tax should be a primary taxing mechanism for a property-ownership economic system (like ours in the US). it's progressive, fair, and according to the wikipedia article, doesn't get passed on to renters.