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Much of the lands values comes from public infrastructure and services provided. A piece of land somewhere in the desert is gone be worth very little.

A house in a city has lots of resources deployed there and land value tax pays for those things.

This tax makes better for people who invest locally and hurts people who don't.




I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad way to run a city specifically, I’m just pointing out the different compromises that are made in regards to property rights with these different forms of taxation.

I would really only object to property taxes (as a concept) in situations where intensified high density infrastructure doesn’t exist (or isn’t required to exist).




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