[ethanbond]

A person who removes land from the common good should have to do something productive with it, give it back to the common good, or simply pay a fee to the commons for having kept it from productive use. A person absolutely should not be able to keep several blocks of downtown Manhattan off the market so they can run a private farm for themselves.

In practical terms, anywhere a person would want to do such a thing, the land would be cheap enough that LVT wouldn't really matter anyway.

[blindmute]

They do pay a fee to the commons for removing it; it's called sales tax. They are also doing something productive with it, by living on it and using it.

If we are to keep trespassing laws, there must be ways to own land permanently and without further cost. There must be a way for man to survive without participating in government enforced labour. All land is owned by some entity; he can't live in the woods owned by the government or someone else; even after buying land and being entirely self sufficient, he cannot simply live, but must pay the government in their currency which he can only get through participating in the labor economy. There is literally no legal way to live freely by your own means. This is a form of slavery that the ancients would find absolutely intolerable.

Increase the price of land or the sales tax, limit the ownership a single person can have, levy inheritance tax, but an indefinite land tax is inhumane.

[ethanbond]

Huh... who does enforce trespassing laws? I'm 99% sure that's the state, and for good reason. Are you supposing that the unlanded should pay for the protection of the landed's assets, but that the landed doesn't need to?

[Siira]

> A person who removes air from the common good should have to do something productive with it, give it back to the common good, or simply pay a fee to the commons for having kept it from productive use. A person absolutely should not be able to breathe several kilos of downtown Manhattan oxygen off the market so they can continue their private lives.

[ethanbond]

Is this meant to be a counter argument? Because yes, if air in a given area were a strictly finite resource that everyone needs for survival (like land), one person should not be able to just indefinitely own enough of it for millions of people to live on.