> The point is to crank up the pain, a lot. NIMBY-ism can be very local since not every parcel of land is being developed at the same time, but the beauty of LVT is that land value doesn't vary much in a local immediate area, so it hits everyone the same. The idea is that if everyone is hurting, they will seek relief as a group by overall relaxing restrictions that would better allow them to meet their tax burden.

Nope. If I'm hurting from my tax burden, I don't want to remove restrictions on development which will make my land more valuable (unless I've decided to move). On the contrary, there's nothing I'd love more than a zoning restriction which not only stops my neighbour building an apartment block overlooking my property but also reduces my taxes as my dwelling no longer sits on land which can be considered prime real estate for building apartments on.

(As an aside, talking about 'cranking up the pain a lot' on people who are guilty of the crime of enjoying a house they bought in an area which is nice as a benefit to the system is a large part of the reason that Georgism has never really got anywhere)

> This already happens. Those who want to NIMBY against new development will do so in any shape or form it takes, and it's not clear that the current paradigm is really effectively addressing this either.

But as I said in the part you reply to, LVT explicitly creates new incentives to NIMBY: people that do not find the noise of a mass transit system bothersome will find the tax increases bothersome (unless they're personally big users of the system). That's more people opposing the development than before. Indeed it creates incentives to NIMBY against stuff almost universally considered good because the further away the excellent public school is, the less tax you pay. This doesn't mean facilities will be built in deprived areas, it means people will seek to block them being built in good areas. A "solution" to NIMBYism which creates more NIMBYism is no kind of solution at all