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0 pointsastrange3y ago0 comments

Property taxes are pretty bad! Everyone hates paying them, retirees can’t afford them, and they tax building improvement which motivates owners to tear down their buildings.

LVT is a much better related tax.

Anyway, wealth taxes are probably bad because taxes are supposed to be deflationary, but wealth taxes are inflationary if you collect them in USD, since taxpayers have to sell assets first. Unless the IRS is willing to take a % interest in a collectible painting as the tax.

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Tiktaalik3y ago

I guess LVT is better, though I find it almost a pendantic thing at this point given that in so many places where property is expensive the property tax is effectively a land value tax already as the land dominates the assessed value so strongly.

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0 pointsastrange3y ago0 comments

Property taxes are pretty bad! Everyone hates paying them, retirees can’t afford them, and they tax building improvement which motivates owners to tear down their buildings.

LVT is a much better related tax.

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Tiktaalik3y ago

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