RE: https://mas.to/@rislandr/116384953805058246
Even if it's not your cup of tea, our cities had lots of colour, flair and freedom back then that's now gone.
That doesn't mean we need to be poor or embrace urban decay.
A top public policy objective should be to minimise housing costs by shifting the tax burden to land value.
This is why we should move to #LandValueTax #LVT in #Vermont #VT, and why no entities should be exempt from it. If you occupy our land, you should pay for the privilege.
"Western civilization" does NOT need to be "revived", and religion is a mental disorder.
There has long been a mistaken assumption in #Georgism circles that #landlords cannot pass on the cost of higher #LandValueTax onto #tenants, but that has never been true.
Landlords do not pay #LVT unless they have no tenants. The land user is the one that pays, not the land owner. The landlord merely acts as intermediary.
#Taxes are always and only ever paid by the only entity who cannot shift them—the end user.
We have not yet begun to discover how high land rents can rise. …
DOLLY Thursday Sesh w/ NAP (Isla) / dj_2button / LVT @ The Cobalt - 26 Mar feat. NAP (MX), dj_2button, LVT
#Claude is absolutely roasting me for my enthusiasm about #LVT . First time in awhile an #LLM has made me laugh. I'm so used to Chat-GPT 's obsequious-ness that Claude being like "uh, no... you are super wrong, sorry" is kinda surprising. Definitely feels like it has a personality.
On the subject itself, LVT seems tough to push for because it creates a wealthy constituency with a very strong incentive to kill it (ie PGH). Maybe 21st century automated assessment makes it easier?
' You'll find buildings like this all over the place. A building like this could get filled if the goal was higher occupancy rates, but that's not the primary goal.
The system isn't collapsing, it's financializing, and that changes how the market behaves; it can make it seem nonsensical from the perspective of the renter because none of the goals are really for the renter. '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9L12HUuI40
#urbanism #housing #rentseeking #PoliticalEconomy #LandValueTax #LVT #Economics #monopoly
Recent conversations I've had regarding #PublicBanking, #ModernMonetaryTheory #MMT, and #LandValueTaxation #LVT in #Vermont #VT have again shown how little knowledge and understanding there is among the electorate of not only these particular concepts, but of how economies actually function.
People approach these subjects with deep skepticism, because they run counterintuitive to received "wisdom".
I often feel like Galileo attempting to prove the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mstarace/116189305249740123
Why would a family of four only get $12K? Why not $12K/yr/person? If we account for 360 million Americans * $12K/year, then we need to add an additional $4.32 Trillion USD to the current $6.8T budget each year to pay Universal Basic Income for everyone.
All we have to do is increase the money supply by that much, and tax land values to balance the inflation.
"Wealth tax" won't work, especially not one designed to result in a one-time payment. #Economics matters, Bernie. #UBI #LVT #USpol
If only someone could have foreseen 140 yrs ago, looking at our great coastal cities like SF and NYC, this correlation between high land prices caused by economic progress and burgeoning of #poverty.
He could have written a book called #ProgressAndPoverty. His name could have been #HenryGeorge.
#urbanism #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LandValueTax #SingleTax #Georgism #housing #homelessness #USpol
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