[HDThoreaun]

That’s the point. If you own a valuable piece of land, the government needs to incentivize you to density so that the community has cheap housing. Putting a single wide on a in demand spot is wasteful and should be punished.

More generally, land value tax returns land to its rightful owner, the people in the community. No one created land so it doesn’t make sense to allow people to profit off it.

[chii]

> returns land to its rightful owner, the people in the community.

if that was the case, why does somebody currently own it, and who did this current owner buy it from (ala, go up the purchase chain back to the first buyer).

[HDThoreaun]

Mistakes were made. They obtained it from someone who had no right to give it to them in my opinion, although of course rights are a tricky subject and many believe “might makes right”

Eventually going up the chain brings us to the government, which again, had no right to give that land away when it belongs to the people. Whether they did it because of corruption or ineptitude is irrelevant.