[kiba]

Land price will adjust accordingly in response to any positive economic news. If you want an unalloy good to come out of these programs, tax lands.

Otherwise, any welfare program will just get some of its value captured by landlords.

[SoftTalker]

Land value tax won't help unless you greatly reduce the zoning and regulation over what can be built on the land.

Putting the land to its most efficient use isn't possible if all you're allowed to build is a two-story detached single family house.

[Tanoc]

You don't reduce the regulation, you increase it's flexibility. Such as allowing dynamic zoning where an area that is zoned as medium density residential automatically becomes hybrid high density residential/low commercial once the districts zoned around it as low density residential are filled.

The issue is we zone something and it stays that way until it's manually reviewed and rezoned. The district has no ability to change itself according to the circumstances. It has to rely on a third party that acts without due haste and with great reluctance.

[ecshafer]

Georgism is the way to prosperity.

[storf45]

Our property taxes are already crazy high and continue to go up every year. How does this help?

[blfr]

Land value tax is interesting because it encourages/forces more efficient use but you can do a lot more by cutting demand through limiting immigration and financialization opportunities.

[Avicebron]

I'm not sure why people don't immediately get serfdom vibes whenever they mention a land tax.

[Aarostotle]

It’s the same reason people don’t get serfdom vibes when a government proposes to take over childcare.

Governments buying goods for people with tax money turns them into dependents, sometimes permanently. It’s easy to overlook that.

[balamatom]

Probably because most of us are already unlanded serfs, except we also get vibes now. Yay, 1000 years of progress!