Encourage companies to pay a dividend and stop stock buy backs and housing prices will come down.
They're the same thing
The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis
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Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis
#12Basically a blue state problem. Maybe they should look at what red states do?
The benefits of a LVT go beyond inner city housing issues though. Of the top ten states with the highest poverty rates in the US - nine are red. If you're unfortunate enough to be part of the (one in five!) impoverished residents of Mississippi you want to see property taxes reduced and undeveloped land decentivized because every dollar saved in pursuit of affordable housing stretches further.
Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis
#13This article is covered by the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast from 2022-06-13. Land Value Taxation, as opposed to property taxes. I didn’t quite understand the distinction.
Simply put, Land value tax is a tax on the unimproved value of land. It also can be thought of as _location_ value tax. Property tax typically includes both land value tax and the value of the improvements to the land - buildings, etc. While they may sound similar, land value tax and property tax lead to vastly different outcomes. Check out this Strong Towns video for an explanation about both taxes and how they diff…
The problem with such a tax is the same problem all other taxes and businesses that do not properly align their incentives have.
Ultimately the ones paying are not the ones making the decisions.
I'm all for a land area tax, but such a tax must necessarily come with political reforms to ensure the proceeds of said tax are used in the manner that the payer of the tax decides.
In other words, people don't vote, land does.
Re: The Tax That Could Solve the Housing Crisis
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Simply put, Land value tax is a tax on the unimproved value of land. It also can be thought of as _location_ value tax. Property tax typically includes both land value tax and the value of the improvements to the land - buildings, etc. While they may sound similar, land value tax and property tax lead to vastly different outcomes. Check out this Strong Towns video for an explanation about both taxes and how they diff…
The problem with such a tax is the same problem all other taxes and businesses that do not properly align their incentives have. Ultimately the ones paying are not the ones making the decisions. I'm all for a land area tax, but such a tax must necessarily come with political reforms to ensure the proceeds of said tax are used in the manner that the payer of the tax decides. In other words, people don't vote, land doe…
Ceding political and budgetary power to wealthier portion of citizens does not seem like a good way to maintain a healthy society. Even the poor deserve a say in how they will be governed, and where collected taxes will go.