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You should check out Georgism/Land Value Tax if you’re not already familiar with it. This comment is spot on.



Amend to that. Pity it is not better known. "homeownership" is such a rotten ideology in the US and has led to so many problems.


I'm very sympathetic to Georgism, but you all seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in a discussion about the real estate ownership anonymity.


Georgism won't work very well if you can't work out who owns the land or if it is owned by offshort corporations.


Of course it will. You just need to charge the land value tax to the owning entity. The same is true now for any taxes, fees or fines regarding that property.

If those are not paid, government can seize and auction-off the property.


Yes anonymous ownership and Georgism aren't strictly mutually exclusive, but the path that led us here is a decidedly incompatible ideology of land just being another asset.




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