Matt Collins
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As long as it exists you are serfs with a landlord.
The only property tax that is conscionable is one on unused land.
I realize you're just as into arrogantly modifying individual behavior as any Left Statist who ever breathed. But I'd still be amused to hear just how the amount of use some land is getting has an effect on whether its owner is a serf with a landlord.
...it's only right that you should have to help pay for the proper and necessary functions of government to keep land fallow.
Rich men buying land from the state, not using it, and telling everyone else they can't use it is just neofeudalism.
Any state eliminating property tax will replace revenue w/ additional tax. I despise property tax . Do you trust a govt to replace 1/2 of revenue ?
I didn't realize it took so much government effort to keep land fallow.
I love it when you fervently avow that the only way to prevent something -- like feudalism -- is by invoking the power of government, without which feudalism would never have existed because government invented the stuff.
If the government sells land to oligarchs it will enforce their ownership of it.
That's twice you've talked like nobody has land to sell but the government.
All unused land was sold by the government originally.
The only other way to acquire land was to homestead it and make use of it.
He's trying to lecture me on history and he has never heard of a land grant. Never heard of a land grant college, never heard of a land grant railroad, and presumes himself professor.
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890,[SUP][1][/SUP] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994.[SUP][2][/SUP] There are 57 institutions which fall under the 1862 Act, 19 under the 1890 Act, and 35 under the 1994 Act.
With Southerners absent during the Civil War, Republicans in Congress set up a funding system that would allow states to modernize their weak higher educational systems. The Morrill Act of 1862 provided federal land to states to establish colleges. Ownership went to the schools which sold it to businesses and farmers. The law specified the mission of these institutions: to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science, and engineering—although "without excluding other scientific and classical studies."[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] This mission was in contrast to the historic practice of existing colleges which offered a narrow Classical curriculum based heavily on Latin, Greek and mathematics.[SUP][5][/SUP]
Tell me again why government should be able to give or sell land to people who make no use of it and enforce those people denying the use of it to everyone else without them even having to decrease the tax burden for everyone else by paying taxes on the unused land.