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by Ericson2314 2017 days ago
Sorry, they should sell. Truely cash-poor land-rich people are an insignificant class that's been held up as the boogieman for 100+ years.

You're not a "temporarily embarrassed billionaire", and if owning land one can no longer afford seems commonplace, it is entirely because the current real estate speculation scheme we prop up (CA especially).

Any realistic LVT would be phases in slowly, and give the prop 13 petit gentry plenty of time to sell and live a fine remainder of their life in a very fashionable condo.