Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️
@lvtyimby.bsky.social
Taxes on land value, pollution & IP should replace taxes on work. Split DC into 127 states to achieve a supermajority to make the Constitution fair. #LVT #UBI
46 and 32 year olds.
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
46 and 32 year olds.
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An age old NextDoor dot com question: Why are renters allowed to vote? What next, should we let animals vote?
I will never get used to people saying this, and with their real names! @nextdoorsv.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
An age old NextDoor dot com question: Why are renters allowed to vote? What next, should we let animals vote?
People who support Prop 13: "Lower property taxes helps renters since property taxes are passed on to them."
Also people who support Prop 13: "Why do renters get to vote for free government?!?"
Also people who support Prop 13: "Why do renters get to vote for free government?!?"
I will never get used to people saying this, and with their real names! @nextdoorsv.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
People who support Prop 13: "Lower property taxes helps renters since property taxes are passed on to them."
Also people who support Prop 13: "Why do renters get to vote for free government?!?"
Also people who support Prop 13: "Why do renters get to vote for free government?!?"
Basically, the "Americans OVERWHELMINGLY love the suburbs; it's just revealed preference" argument is the "Americans OVERWHELMINGLY love free parking; it's just revealed preference" argument re-tooled for suburbia apologism, in that it completely ignores the massive subsidies being provided.
People preferring suburban living to city living is the result of a century of government subsidizing infrastructure to serve the suburbs by taxing the already built city revenue centers as well as the failure to tax land rents fully to make city living cheaper (relative to suburban living).
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Basically, the "Americans OVERWHELMINGLY love the suburbs; it's just revealed preference" argument is the "Americans OVERWHELMINGLY love free parking; it's just revealed preference" argument re-tooled for suburbia apologism, in that it completely ignores the massive subsidies being provided.
Me when implementing full Georgism in my first 100 days:
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Me when implementing full Georgism in my first 100 days:
"These politicians lied to you and you should not vote for them" is as good a campaign strategy as there is.
"You voted for this!" FAFOism is a powerful force. Easy to get swept away in it. But the fact is that guys like this were lied to, and your anger is better spent on the liars than the lied to. We can welcome guys like this in. We need to build a better country, and we can't do it without them.
Q: You voted for President Trump in 2024. Do you regret that decision?
North Carolina Voter: Yes, 100%…DHS agents harassed me simply for being Latino
North Carolina Voter: Yes, 100%…DHS agents harassed me simply for being Latino
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"These politicians lied to you and you should not vote for them" is as good a campaign strategy as there is.
Preferences, famously not shaped by incentives, including those that are classic criteria for market failure (externalized costs).
I agree there are some long-term structural incentives for sprawl - externalized costs, etc. - but they're driving more sprawl at the margin, not totally inverting people's preferences.
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Preferences, famously not shaped by incentives, including those that are classic criteria for market failure (externalized costs).
People preferring suburban living to city living is the result of a century of government subsidizing infrastructure to serve the suburbs by taxing the already built city revenue centers as well as the failure to tax land rents fully to make city living cheaper (relative to suburban living).
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
People preferring suburban living to city living is the result of a century of government subsidizing infrastructure to serve the suburbs by taxing the already built city revenue centers as well as the failure to tax land rents fully to make city living cheaper (relative to suburban living).
We're not taxing your property, we're assessing a tax based on an estimate of the benefit received by the average resident on each privately owned plot for the upcoming year.
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We're not taxing your property, we're assessing a tax based on an estimate of the benefit received by the average resident on each privately owned plot for the upcoming year.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Land value tax would solve this.
Building housing is a left issue.
Taxing housing to build housing means less housing.
Less housing means more pressure on your housing market and higher rents.
Build the housing. And don’t let NIMBYs stop or slow us downs
Taxing housing to build housing means less housing.
Less housing means more pressure on your housing market and higher rents.
Build the housing. And don’t let NIMBYs stop or slow us downs
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Land value tax would solve this.
Or just tax land value, since the portion of the value that is being accrued to the landlord that you'd want to control is land value. And unlike rent control, a general land value tax fixes the problem of privatized land rents for commercial and owner-occupied residential plots, so no need for RC.
to clarify my own position: i think reasonably designed rent control ordinances, coupled with abundant supply, can in fact be totally functional. i think in practice many american rent control ordinances, coupled with deliberately inadequate supply, are even more dysfunctional--and regressive
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Or just tax land value, since the portion of the value that is being accrued to the landlord that you'd want to control is land value. And unlike rent control, a general land value tax fixes the problem of privatized land rents for commercial and owner-occupied residential plots, so no need for RC.
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"yes i personally would accrue many rents from land but actually land rents SUCK as a social system and we should build housing instead"
--average participant at a yimby happy hour
--average participant at a yimby happy hour
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"yes i personally would accrue many rents from land but actually land rents SUCK as a social system and we should build housing instead"
--average participant at a yimby happy hour
--average participant at a yimby happy hour
I wonder what got into the heads of these governors that all of a sudden they want to completely abolish the oldest tax used in America, which they say is supposedly anathema to home ownership in a country that hasn't had issues with widespread home ownership.
The California-ization of FL/TX continues on track
Both states have the equivalent of Cali's Prop 13 being proposed by their governors
The end state is clear: a sales tax so crushing that cross-border shopping becomes popular, or an income tax.
Both states have the equivalent of Cali's Prop 13 being proposed by their governors
The end state is clear: a sales tax so crushing that cross-border shopping becomes popular, or an income tax.
incredible things continue to happen on the other site (Ron DeSantis arguing with..... Roman Helmet Guy?)
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I wonder what got into the heads of these governors that all of a sudden they want to completely abolish the oldest tax used in America, which they say is supposedly anathema to home ownership in a country that hasn't had issues with widespread home ownership.
For me it's hot sauces.
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
For me it's hot sauces.
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Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
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holy fuck
we must build an army of radical georgists to save this country
we must build an army of radical georgists to save this country
Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
holy fuck
we must build an army of radical georgists to save this country
we must build an army of radical georgists to save this country
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Second coming of Henry George save us
Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Second coming of Henry George save us
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Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on
"Everyone is 12" theory of scientific debate: as long as I keep saying "nuh uh!" then the science isn't settled.
In a scientific debate, I do not need to give you a *convincing argument* to accept the truth. Whether *you* are *convinced* is immaterial.
What matters is who demonstrates the better evidence in favor of their claim, and who the scientific consensus embraces. Your obstinacy does not matter.
What matters is who demonstrates the better evidence in favor of their claim, and who the scientific consensus embraces. Your obstinacy does not matter.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"Everyone is 12" theory of scientific debate: as long as I keep saying "nuh uh!" then the science isn't settled.
But what about Man vs food?
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
But what about Man vs food?
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
Georgist autobiography: I read a few articles promoting a land value tax after seeing a "land value tax would solve this" tweet and now I can't walk past a vacant lot without getting angry.
rw auto biography: yeah i used to be a communist but then i read ayn rand in college and decided to invade iraq
lib autobiography: ive been calling the cops on protestors since i was 9
lw autobiography: my parents own shares in a small defense company umm northrop
lib autobiography: ive been calling the cops on protestors since i was 9
lw autobiography: my parents own shares in a small defense company umm northrop
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Georgist autobiography: I read a few articles promoting a land value tax after seeing a "land value tax would solve this" tweet and now I can't walk past a vacant lot without getting angry.