[mrweasel]

> This is a very engineering solution to a very not-engineering problem.

True, the solution very obviously to reduce poverty. It's a social problem, not an engineering nor a policing problem.

[postmortembees]

Agreed. It's surprising how often we are great at post mortem analysis in engineering contexts (asking "why" five times), but we find it uncomfortable to do the same in social contexts. We jump straight to "How" rather than "why", and build locks that inconvenience people in hopes of stopping that one "how" rather than investing in fixing the root causes.

[teach]

Land Value Tax would fix this!

[bagels]

We already have a land value tax. It's called "Property Tax"

[postmortembees]

Property tax is not land value tax. Property tax is a tax on both the improvements and the base value of the land.

Land value taxes are only taxes on the value of the land.

A land value tax would tax a giant residential building and the parking lot adjacent to it the same, which encourages maximizing the value of the lot rather than leaving it for parking.