Land value tax would solve this.

Or just tax land value, since the portion of the value that is being accrued to the landlord that you'd want to control is land value. And unlike rent control, a general land value tax fixes the problem of privatized land rents for commercial and owner-occupied residential plots, so no need for RC.

"yes i personally would accrue many rents from land but actually land rents SUCK as a social system and we should build housing instead" --average participant at a yimby happy hour

I wonder what got into the heads of these governors that all of a sudden they want to completely abolish the oldest tax used in America, which they say is supposedly anathema to home ownership in a country that hasn't had issues with widespread home ownership.

For me it's hot sauces.

Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.

holy fuck we must build an army of radical georgists to save this country

Second coming of Henry George save us

Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on

"Everyone is 12" theory of scientific debate: as long as I keep saying "nuh uh!" then the science isn't settled.

But what about Man vs food?

as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.

Georgist autobiography: I read a few articles promoting a land value tax after seeing a "land value tax would solve this" tweet and now I can't walk past a vacant lot without getting angry.

Again, there's nothing functionally different about people from an outgroup wanting housing in high demand cities and people from an ingroup wanting housing in high demand cities, so this is just bigotry masked as economic analysis.

i think this + the economic paper about work from home basically means that cheap housing + work-life balance -> people being able to have the families they want

The "standard time zealots" every November:

i'm going to build woke singapore with cheap housing for all

A reminder, a person who claims to be a YIMBY but backs the deportation of people to "solve" the housing crisis is just a NIMBY.

"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:

Two things pop into mind: 1. If JD wants to replace 30M illegal immigrants with 30M WASP US citizens, how would he solve the housing crisis then? 2. If JD DOESN'T want to do that and just immolate 30M people in order to solve the housing crisis, that makes his reasoning sociopathic.

Two things pop into mind: 1. If JD wants to replace 30M illegal immigrants with 30M WASP US citizens, how would he solve the housing crisis then? 2. If JD DOESN'T want to do that and just immolate 30M people in order to solve the housing crisis, that makes his reasoning sociopathic.

Guys, you're still trying to have the feds build high speed rail. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is build it with local mayors. Link a national high speed rail system in the aggregate.

"I don't have any kids in school, so why am I paying property taxes for schools I don't use?" I'm sorry, did you pay for the schools that you used when you were a kid? No? Then pay up.

Senate Democrats will be like "we're against gerrymandering and the Electoral College because it against the principle of one person, one vote" and then support an institutional rule in the body that is most violative of that principle to make it even worse.

The consequences of three-cueing reached the global elite.

Trump presidency: We've won the war on the second derivative.

apparently this was mainly due to the city implementing a temporary shift away from property tax on new builds and to a land value tax economics.ucr.edu/papers/paper...

So much alpha between 1870’and 1930 I actually have to agree with Andreessen here

The problem for property taxes is that a) there's a cap at how high the rate can be before it starts to hurt new construction, b) that cap leads to sales/income taxes being passed, c) those taxes cause deadweight loss, & d) the ill effects of DWL get blamed on PTs. Land value tax would solve this.

it's really funny how Texas and Florida are competing in a race to adopt the most idiotic property tax system known to man

More evidence for my thesis that the future of liberalism must be Georgism.

A perfect B1G game doesn't exi...

maybe it's... universal material factors? like the massive recession basically every country suffered through 20 years ago? and which no developed country has recovered from?

Fixed this to include the correct take on the spectrum: Georgist.

Really great that the founders were like "sure, the Senate is anti-democratic in that it creates severe malapportionment, but what if it was also anti-democratic in that it shields representatives from immediately being held accountable?"

I didn't expect us to actually get healthcare but I wanted them to either suffer serious poll damage OR break the filibuster.

I'd rather have 60 Republicans in the Senate to vote for the "Eat Shit" bill rather than 52 Republicans + 8 Democrats.

Are these constituents in the room with us right now?

We were told by leading Democrats that this last election was to protect democracy itself, and it's ironic that this was both proven true in the last year and that it no longer is the position of those same Democrats. www.instagram.com/reels/C9xlc8...

You can't save health care when the GOP holds a trifecta and is willing to throw the American people into a death pile to gut the ACA subsidies. All you can do is let them own the decision to do so 100% so that voters know who to blame.

⁨Oregon fans watching a low scoring game involving an Oregon QB and a team in black and yellow that gave up a safety:⁩

This makes no sense because the 8 states with the lowest % of enslaved persons in the 1790 census (which included NJ) would've made up 57% of the free persons population. The compromise was to get to 9 states for ratification, which meant getting slave states' approval, i.e. a slaver compromise.

If the Cave Caucus does succeed, this should bolster the calls for blue state secession because a) it proves that the GOP is willing to drive the country off a cliff but craves blue state senators to have a hand on the wheel and b) the Cave Caucus is unable to stand up to legislative terrorists.

I think that it's imperative that elected representatives learn that taxes affecting price is due to their effect on the supply of the things taxed, not due to how it affects producer incomes in general. So many cases of a bad analytical framework affecting policy recommendations.

Double the double number scores⁩.

I want to watch football. I do not want to listen to watch Trump. Please fuck off, fox

GET THAT FUCKER OFF MY NFL BROADCAST!!!