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by epistasis 922 days ago
Those who hate taxes, and have investigated them, universally point to the LVT as the "least bad tax."

Now, I'm not opposed to taxes, but given the choice between taxes that increase prosperity and taxes that decrease prosperity, I'm picking the ones that make us all wealthier and remove rentierism.

If you think that all taxes are "in practice a massive transfer of wealth from poorer to richer" I'm not sure you have a solid understanding of taxation.

If you think that LVT creates "landlord barons" then you really have zero understanding of the LVT. It eliminates the rentierism that creates barons. It takes their land rents and redistributes them to productive uses. That's the entire point.

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> Those who hate taxes, and have investigated them, universally point to the LVT as the "least bad tax."

Can you post links to specific analysis work of these people?

> If you think that LVT creates "landlord barons" then you really have zero understanding of the LVT.

That's difficult to believe. The consequence of LVT is to remove regular people from owning homes in order to transfer it to wealthy corporations who can afford major developments.

I continue to be curious how LVT is supposed to be benefitial for regular people but I've yet to see any evidence in that direction.