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Killer Arguments Against Land Value Tax, Not
Personal blog · kaalvtn.blogspot.comeconomicspolitics
Killer Arguments Against Land Value Tax, Not is a personal blog at kaalvtn.blogspot.com about economics and politics. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for UK-focused rebuttals to common arguments against land value tax, including the 'Poor Widow' argument. Commenters cite it as support or as a related read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
economics, taxation, Georgism, land value tax, rents, site premium, citizen's income, citizen's dividend, citizen's pension, welfare,
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
What Hacker News says?
This is 'The Poor Widow': http://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html (entire site is interesting)
Comment linking /2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html
on “Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)”Copying your URL here and adding the scheme so it renders as a link: https://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html
Comment linking /2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html
on “1-Euro Houses”This is known as the Poor Widow fallacy. edit: https://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html edit: A solution to this problem is to allow seniors to defer payment of the land value tax until the next purchase of the land, at which point the next buyer will receive the deferred tax burden.
Comment linking /2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html
on “1-Euro Houses”You compare the value of a given property to that of similar properties in other locations. Let us say you have two identical apartment buildings: one in the city center, and one on the outskirts of the city. It is likely that renting an apartment in the former is more expensive, despite both building being exactly the same. The difference in rental rates between the two buildings is due to the difference in value o…
Comment linking /p/valuations-and-potential-lvt-receipts.html
on “Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods”See also, perhaps, Killer Arguments Against Land Value Tax... Not: https://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/p/index.html
Comment linking /p/index.html
on “Some arguments against a land value tax (2024)”"George-pilled"? UK-focused articles rebutting common arguments against a land value tax, written by an LVT advocate: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/p/index.html
Comment linking /p/index.html
on “The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land”