What do you think of Land Value Tax (LVT)

Wouldn't it be easier (and more fair) just to have absolutely no taxes on property?
Two kinds of people in this world: those who just want to be left alone, and those who will not leave them alone.

We can accurately apply that to this situation and say there are two kinds of people in this world:

* Those who want to tax

* And those who don't
 
RoyL is talking in circles.
No, you are refusing to know facts, so I have to identify them for you again.
When I buy land and use it for my purpose to support myself (and my family), I can't help what others do around me. You say they provide this and that and opportunities and crap.
Which they indisputably are. And you are depriving still others of those opportunities, which they would otherwise be at liberty to access.
So who the f&&& cares.
Everyone who would like to use that land, and can't because you are forcibly excluding them from it. This is self-evident and indisputable. You just refuse to know it.
I pay more because someone else does something?
No, because as a result, YOU ARE TAKING MORE FROM OTHERS.
Oh, move if you don't like it. Move my house?
People do move, duh. People do seek accommodation better suited to their needs and means. Why can't you, if you can't afford to pay for what you take from others? Why pretend you can't move? If a tornado blew your house away and dumped toxic waste on "your" land, you'd move, and you know it.
So, I incur an expense or loss because someone else decides to build whatnot around me, bullshit!
You don't incur any loss. The expense is the additional value of what you are taking from others. Why do you think you should not have to pay the market price for what you take home from the grocery store just because you were getting it cheaper before?
 
Two kinds of people in this world: those who just want to be left alone, and those who will not leave them alone.
Right: if I want a landowner to leave me alone to use what nature provided for my sustenance, he won't. He will initiate force against me to deprive me of my right to liberty by forcible, aggressive, violent coercion -- or rather, get government to do it for him, like the greedy, cowardly parasite he is.
We can accurately apply that to this situation and say there are two kinds of people in this world:
Yep: those who want something for nothing, like landowners, and those who are honest and only want what they have earned, like LVT advocates.
* Those who want to tax

* And those who don't
If you don't want any taxes, go to one of the places where there aren't any, like Somalia.

Oh, no, wait a minute, that's right: in places like that, there's no one to defend you against the kind of people who don't want to leave others alone.

Some people just can't wrap their minds around the fact that we have done the experiments, and the people who have governments win.
 
Some people just can't wrap their minds around the fact that we have done the experiments, and the people who have governments win.
No, the people pulling the strings of governments win. The French and American revolutions prove this. (not to mention the failed attempts by various States to conquer Afghanistan) The citizenry remain slaves to the State (even if cognitive dissonance prevents them from understanding this-like the advocates of LVT and other forms of Statism)
 
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No, the people pulling the strings of governments win. The French and American revolutions prove this. (not to mention the failed attempts by various States to conquer Afghanistan)
LOL! Who's better off, the people of France or the USA, or the Afghans?
The citizenry remain slaves to the State (even if cognitive dissonance prevents them from understanding this-like the advocates of LVT and other forms of Statism)
I look around me, and no, that's just nonsense.
 
Objectively, as a matter of physical fact, you are not a sovereign, as you do not exercise ultimate authority over a specific area of land.

The same could be said for everything you're talking about. That's one of the big difference between us, Roy. I am fully aware that I am speaking in normatives. Not what "is", but what I say "ought" to be. Unlike you, as you take what you think "ought" to be, and speak about it as if it "is".

No, that's just silly "meeza hatesa gubmint" nonsense.

Not silly. Meeza duz. This version of it (and your version as well) anyway.

How could land be private? What happened to the rights of all who would otherwise be at liberty to use it?

They don't have any, remember? See the first made point above - that's you trying stupidly and futility to pass off a normative as a positive.

No, you did not, as a matter of indisputable, objective physical fact. The state is not a fiction. That is just a stupid lie.

You don't even know what a fiction is, Roy, you're so used to mistaking your own for reality.

If there is any such thing as "your land," the state has already made itself a piss-poor custodian of the rights of all who would otherwise be at liberty to use it. That is logically inescapable.

See above - there are no "rights of all who would otherwise be at liberty to use it". That's your goofy fiction that you want made into a reality so badly that you will restate it ad nauseam, as if constant repetition will somehow cement it in place.

Land value tax never exceeds to ability to pay: just let the high bidder use the land, and he will pay it for you.

Pay it "for me"? If I was evicted (FORCIBLY, VIOLENTLY REMOVED) from the land for non-payment of your silly-ass rent, the new landholder would not "pay it for me" - he would pay it for himself. I'd be out of the picture. You know -- given that the rent exceeded my ability to pay - not someone else's. But you're not speaking from any POV other than the state - so it really doesn't matter to you anyway. You're just a landlord. So long as someone can pay, your government sensibilities are tingling with joy.

Will ND follow CA off the Prop 13 cliff?

No, Prop 13 isn't what is taking California over a cliff. They have far-left liberals in the driver seat to thank for that. And no, ND won't, because they will actually do the job that Prop 13 didn't go far enough doing. They will actually abolish the tax altogether. AD VALOREM TAXES PROHIBITED.

Isn't that a wonderful thought? Actually being secure on your private land, and not subject to nasty, evil multi-tentacled people who think that perpetual rent payments to the state are a good thing?

Maybe. People are certainly stupid enough to give everything they earn to idle landowners in return for nothing.

OK, that tears it. Just for that I'm going to need first, last, and a whopping security deposit from you, or you can just go find someone else to pay your beloved Measure of Advantage tax to.
 
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The same could be said for everything you're talking about.
But not accurately.
That's one of the big difference between us, Roy. I am fully aware that I am speaking in normatives. Not what "is", but what I say "ought" to be. Unlike you, as you take what you think "ought" to be, and speak about it as if it "is".
No, I state what is, and what it implies about what ought to be.
They don't have any, remember? See the first made point above - that's you trying stupidly and futility to pass off a normative as a positive.
People do have rights of various kinds. It's a question of which, and why.
See above - there are no "rights of all who would otherwise be at liberty to use it".
Only in the same vacuous legal sense that slaves had no right to liberty when slavery was legal.
That's your goofy fiction that you want made into a reality so badly that you will restate it ad nauseam, as if constant repetition will somehow cement it in place.
I'm just accepting your own principle of non-initiation of force, and showing you what it actually implies.
Pay it "for me"? If I was evicted (FORCIBLY, VIOLENTLY REMOVED) from the land for non-payment of your silly-ass rent,
I just told you: let the high bidder use the land, and you can pay the rent.
the new landholder would not "pay it for me"
You can still "hold" the land. You just can't use it. If you use it, you have to pay for it. Funny how that works.
- he would pay it for himself.
And it would be affordable, and right in line with his ability to pay.
I'd be out of the picture.
And not being charged any tax you could be unable to pay. Thank you for agreeing that LVT can't exceed ability to pay, and I am therefore right and you are wrong.
You know -- given that the rent exceeded my ability to pay - not someone else's.
It didn't and couldn't exceed your ability to pay while you held the land, as proved above. It only exceeded your ability to pay for the land while simultaneously depriving others of it. But that's not a sign of the tax being unaffordable. It's a sign of you living beyond your means.
But you're not speaking from any POV other than the state - so it really doesn't matter to you anyway. You're just a landlord. So long as someone can pay, your government sensibilities are tingling with joy.
I am interested in showing how government can work fairly, with liberty, justice and prosperity for all. You just don't want liberty, justice and prosperity for all. You want liberty and prosperity for you, at the expense of servitude, injustice and poverty forcibly inflicted on others.
No, Prop 13 isn't what is taking California over a cliff.
It most certainly is, and it was predicted to do so when Prop 13 passed, more than 30 years ago. People today are too young to remember what CA was like before Prop 13. It was prosperous. It had low unemployment and high wages. It had good services and infrastructure. Prop 13 killed CA dead. Or rather, CA committed suicide when it passed Prop 13.
They have far-left liberals in the driver seat to thank for that.
Garbage. CA's government spending as a fraction of state GDP is not out of line. How is CA different? That's easy: it recovers a smaller fraction of total land rent than any state but that other proud and prosperous economic dynamo, Louisiana.
And no, ND won't, because they will actually do the job that Prop 13 didn't go far enough doing. They will actually abolish the tax altogether. AD VALOREM TAXES PROHIBITED.
And if they do, they will go off the same cliff of welfare subsidy giveaways to landowners as CA, but faster.
Isn't that a wonderful thought? Actually being secure on your private land, and not subject to nasty, evil multi-tentacled people who think that perpetual rent payments to the state are a good thing?
You poor fool. Haven't you learned ANYTHING from CA? Prop 13 was supposed to prevent a few hundred people a year from being "taxed out of their homes" (i.e., pocketing a huge, unearned and tax-free capital gain courtesy of government and the community, and buying a bigger house in a less exclusive neighborhood). But the ACTUAL RESULT of Prop 13 is that now instead of a few hundred people a year "losing" (actually selling at a tidy profit) their homes, MILLIONS of people are literally losing their homes, their life savings, and everything else, and being kicked out into the gutter. People's "security" in their homes is incomparably worse now than it ever was before Prop 13. The actual result is colossally the exact, diametric opposite of what you claim to want. Hello?
 
You can still "hold" the land. You just can't use it. If you use it, you have to pay for it. Funny how that works.

Isn't it, though? Can't have your cake and eat it under LVT. Guess we'll have to abolish it preemptively.

And it would be affordable, and right in line with his ability to pay.

Yes, affordable...to him. Right in line with...HIS...ability to pay. Not someone else's.

And not being charged any tax you could be unable to pay. Thank you for agreeing that LVT can't exceed ability to pay, and I am therefore right and you are wrong.

Hold your slippery evil tongue there, Roy. The point at which the ability (FOR ONE PARTICULAR PERSON) to pay is exceeded is the very point where a forced eviction can ensue. Someone who is out on their ass on the street is no longer being charged, but that doesn't mean their ability to pay wasn't exceeded. Proof of that:

1 - You pay $1,000 a month on LVT, but someone bids $1,100.
2 - You can stay, but only if you pay $1,100, because your bidding opponent will pay it otherwise.
3 - You do not have $1,100 to pay. You only have $1,000, so you are forcibly removed. (no "let" or "allow someone else" to it, to satisfy your we-should-all-be-ho-so-so-pleased sensibilities. All force)
4 - Your ass is now on the street, but you still have $1,000 that you aren't being charged. What do you want? The land Roy's useful idiots just brute-forced you out of. However, the value for that land now exceeds your ability to pay.

Why does simple, fundamental shit like this escape your pretzeled brain, Roy? Pretty sure that's deliberate on your part.

It didn't and couldn't exceed your ability to pay while you held the land, as proved above.

As proved otherwise (while showing your bare-assed naked stupidity in the process), it did -- as ADMITTED by your very next ass-revealing statement:

It only exceeded your ability to pay for the land while simultaneously depriving others of it.

See? It did exceed the ability to pay. Out of your own words, regardless of conditions you place on it that don't make it otherwise. I don't care what was simultaneously going on with others. By whatever mechanism, the price was raised, and the state issued a "PAY MORE OR GET THE FUCK OUT" order.

But that's not a sign of the tax being unaffordable. It's a sign of you living beyond your means.

Bald faced lie, Roy. Bald faced. Or genuinely stupid - a sign of no critical thinking skills. You don't know and cannot predict or judge the circumstances that make one price affordable some but not to others (not that you care, being a collectivist parasite and all). That's where your callous, evil, unthinking stupidity comes into play. Someone could have faced a hardship that was beyond their control. Perhaps BUMBLING, STUMBLING, UNTHINKING ROY L. accidentally set fire to his business, and then disappeared to go pollute another community and business with his pyromaniacal ideas. A large portion of wealth is wiped out by Roy's bugger-picking stupidity, but the landholder is hanging on, albeit by a thread. Until Roy L.'s ugly but smarter and far more successful sister shows up, and lays down a bid of her own on the land.

Snip all your nonsense about CA and Prop 13. I would rebut it, but this thread is already inflated with too much of your nonsense already.
 
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Isn't it, though? Can't have your cake and eat it under LVT. Guess we'll have to abolish it preemptively.
I know you want to have your cake and eat it. You don't care that that means others can neither have nor eat theirs.

The current system requires the productive to pay for government TWICE so that landowners can pocket one of the payments in return for nothing. LVT eliminates that something-for-nothing payment to the landowner, ensuring that everyone pays only once for what they take from society. You just want to take from society without paying for what you take, and to accomplish that you want to force, repeat, FORCE the productive to pay twice for what they take.

You demand to have your cake and eat it, too. Simple.
Yes, affordable...to him. Right in line with...HIS...ability to pay. Not someone else's.
Because he now holds the land that the tax liability comes from. Duh.
Hold your slippery evil tongue there, Roy.
<yawn> The evil always accuse the virtuous of the very sins of which they are themselves most guilty.
The point at which the ability (FOR ONE PARTICULAR PERSON) to pay is exceeded is the very point where a forced eviction can ensue.
Nonsense. A forced eviction can ensue any time someone forcibly excludes others from land they don't pay for. Whether they are ABLE to pay is a different question from whether they DO pay.
Someone who is out on their ass on the street
What would stop them from using their individual exemption to obtain accommodation better suited to their needs and means, as honest, responsible, mature adults do every day? Certainly greedy, whiny, lying, infantile sociopaths might not do that, but I'm not much interested in advocating a society designed to accommodate the whims of greedy, whiny, lying, infantile sociopaths at the expense of honest, responsible, mature adults.
is no longer being charged, but that doesn't mean their ability to pay wasn't exceeded.
It means their ability to pay ISN'T exceeded. That is exactly the free market allocation mechanism whereby LVT is always affordable, and never exceeds the landholder's ability to pay. You are just crying like a spoiled little girl -- or is it like a greedy, whiny, lying, infantile sociopath? -- because you want to eat cake from the grocery store that you are not willing to pay for.
Proof of that:

1 - You pay $1,000 a month on LVT, but someone bids $1,100.
2 - You can stay, but only if you pay $1,100, because your bidding opponent will pay it otherwise.
3 - You do not have $1,100 to pay. You only have $1,000, so you are forcibly removed. (no "let" or "allow someone else" to it, to satisfy your we-should-all-be-ho-so-so-pleased sensibilities. All force)
There is no way to allocate exclusive use of land but by force. Market allocation of land tenure through LVT at least places that force under predictable, objective, efficient and accountable control.
4 - Your ass is now on the street,
Nonsense. You just move to accommodation better suited to your needs and means, as people who are not greedy, whiny, lying, infantile sociopaths do every day.
but you still have $1,000 that you aren't being charged. What do you want? The land Roy's useful idiots just brute-forced you out of.
No more than you were brute-forcing everyone else out of it.

Oh, no, wait a minute, that's right, I forgot: it's only brute force when government does it to you, not when you do it to everyone else...
However, the value for that land now exceeds your ability to pay.
?? Of course you can't forcibly exclude others from all the good land you want without paying for it. Don't be absurd. That doesn't mean LVT exceeds ability to pay. It just means you aren't WILLING to pay as much as control of the land makes you ABLE to pay.

You are just sniveling because under LVT you can't take everything you want without paying for it.
Why does simple, fundamental shit like this escape your pretzeled brain, Roy? Pretty sure that's deliberate on your part.
Are you serious? The really simple, fundamental $#!+ that escapes your pretzeled brain is that LVT only charges you for the land you are excluding others from, not all the land you wish you could afford to exclude others from.
As proved otherwise (while showing your bare-assed naked stupidity in the process), it did -- as ADMITTED by your very next ass-revealing statement:

"It only exceeded your ability to pay for the land while simultaneously depriving others of it."
Oh, stop prevaricating. I never said LVT couldn't exceed the value you wanted to take from others and not pay for. I said it couldn't exceed the value you took. THAT value is what confers the ability to pay. Not the WILLINGNESS, which is what you are whining about.
See? It did exceed the ability to pay.
No, that's a flat-out lie. You still have the ability to pay it. Same as if you take home a cake from the grocery store, bought on credit. If you have the cake, you have the ability to pay for it, because (in principle) you can always just sell it to someone else who likes the same kind of cake in order to pay the store. What you want to do is eat the cake, and then claim that the grocery store is charging you more than you are able to pay, because you can no longer sell it to someone else in order to pay the store for it. The stupidity and dishonesty of such an "argument" stagger the imagination.
Out of your own words, regardless of conditions you place on it that don't make it otherwise.
Ah, no, the conditions very much DO make it otherwise, as proved above. Control of the land automatically confers ability to pay for it. Full stop. It just may not confer WILLINGNESS to pay for it by allowing a more productive user to have the use of it.
I don't care what was simultaneously going on with others.
IOW, you want to have it both ways. Sorry, that's just blatantly fallacious.

You don't want to sell the cake you took, or pay the market price for it, but you do want to eat it. Simple.
By whatever mechanism, the price was raised, and the state issued a "PAY MORE OR GET THE FUCK OUT" order.
"PAY FOR THE CAKE YOU TOOK, OR SELL IT TO SOMEONE WHO WILL, OR GIVE IT BACK."

Right.
Bald faced lie, Roy. Bald faced.
No, that's just another stupid, evil lie from you, as proved above.
Or genuinely stupid - a sign of no critical thinking skills.
As they say in Japan, "It's mirror time!"
You don't know and cannot predict or judge the circumstances that make one price affordable some but not to others
The individual's "circumstances" are irrelevant to the market conditions: the store's cakes are known to be affordable, because it sells them at the market price. And if you take one home, it is known that you are able to pay for it because you can get the same price for it from someone else. If you don't want to pay for the cake you took home, or sell it, then DON'T EAT IT. Just give it back. But don't eat it and then claim the store is charging you more for it than you can afford to pay.
(not that you care, being a collectivist parasite and all).
The landowner is the parasite, as already proved.
That's where your callous, evil, unthinking stupidity comes into play.
Mirror time again. I'm not the one whose belief system condemns millions of innocent people to agonizing death every year. You are.
Someone could have faced a hardship that was beyond their control.
The land they hold is not beyond their control.
Perhaps BUMBLING, STUMBLING, UNTHINKING ROY L. accidentally set fire to his business, and then disappeared to go pollute another community and business with his pyromaniacal ideas. A large portion of wealth is wiped out by Roy's bugger-picking stupidity, but the landholder is hanging on, albeit by a thread. Until Roy L.'s ugly but smarter and far more successful sister shows up, and lays down a bid of her own on the land.
Were you under an erroneous impression that that spew of dishonest shrieking meant something?
Snip all your nonsense about CA and Prop 13. I would rebut it, but this thread is already inflated with too much of your nonsense already.
You can't rebut it. Every day in every way since Prop 13 passed, CA gets worse and worse.
 
If you don't want any taxes, go to one of the places where there aren't any, like Somalia.

Oh, no, wait a minute, that's right: in places like that, there's no one to defend you against the kind of people who don't want to leave others alone.


People sleep peaceably in their beds at
night only because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell​
 
So if they just had the ability to raise taxes everything would be fine?
If CA recovered publicly created land value for public purposes and benefit instead of giving it away to landowners, most things would be a lot better (LVT admittedly wouldn't stop the evil and insane War on Drugs, or other problems that are unrelated to land and taxation).
 
If CA recovered publicly created land value for public purposes and benefit instead of giving it away to landowners, most things would be a lot better (LVT admittedly wouldn't stop the evil and insane War on Drugs, or other problems that are unrelated to land and taxation).

Why not just cut spending and privatize many state functions? That makes more sense to me than increase taxes.
 
Why not just cut spending and privatize many state functions? That makes more sense to me than increase taxes.
Because then you can't get even with the "evil" rent-seekers by taking their money and handing it too "the poor"-all necessary in Roy L's utopian fantasy land.
 
Why not just cut spending and privatize many state functions?
Because private interests cannot perform most of those functions as efficiently as the state.
That makes more sense to me than increase taxes.
LVT is not a tax increase. It replaces unjust and destructive taxes that confiscate privately created value with a just and beneficial tax that recovers publicly created value for public purposes and benefit. By solving the economic problems caused by those unjust and destructive taxes, it would allow a great reduction in total government spending. The more government subsidizes landowning, the more social problems it creates, and the more it will spend futilely trying to solve them. You just don't understand that by refusing to consider liberty and justice, you guarantee government has to get bigger.
 
Watch this.

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You don't need LVT.
 
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Because private interests cannot perform most of those functions as efficiently as the state.

Oh wow, I never thought your posts could reach this level of stupidity.

Proposal:

Privatize/turn over to local government virtually all state government functions
Levy user fees on remaining services
Abolish taxes
 
Because then you can't get even with the "evil" rent-seekers by taking their money
Rent is money (actually wealth) the rent seekers have stolen from the productive with government's help. Government should take that money back instead of stealing even more from the productive in taxes.
and handing it too "the poor"-all necessary in Roy L's utopian fantasy land.
No, you're just lying again about what I have plainly written. I have never advocated giving money to the poor. I advocate restoring EVERYONE'S EQUAL individual rights to liberty by EXEMPTING EVERYONE EQUALLY from paying LVT on enough good land for a normal person to live on. Some geoists advocate an equal, universal citizens' dividend (not payments only to the poor) funded by LVT, but I am not one of them.
 
Oh wow, I never thought your posts could reach this level of stupidity.
You just don't know anything about market failures or the economics of public goods.
Proposal:

Privatize/turn over to local government virtually all state government functions
Levy user fees on remaining services
Abolish taxes
Silliness. Google "public goods" and start reading.
 
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