@LVTYIMBY

Taxes on land value, pollution & IP should replace taxes on work. Split DC into 127 states to achieve a supermajority to make the Constitution fair. #LVT #UBI

 Portland, OR
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UPZONING ALONE WON'T FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS; WE NEED TO HAVE A LAND VALUE TAX BECAUSE UPZONING GENERATES WINDFALL GAINS FOR LAND BANKERS. LVT WILL CAPTURE THIS VALUE FOR EVERYONE'S BENEFIT, ENSURES THAT UPZONING BOOSTS SUPPLY, AND INCENTIVIZES EFFICIENT MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE.
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Ramsey Kilani 🌐🔰@Ramsey_Kilani14h
High ticket prices function effectively as a land value tax for concerts. And people can't shut up about it.
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James Medlock@jdcmedlock14h
Meanwhile, one of the most harmful policy movements in America right now is a property tax revolt that is shifting us away from our most economically efficient tax, all so property owners can have a little more in their pockets next month. xitter.cf/sigmahamster2/status/2…
hamsters🌐🐹
@sigmahamster220h
Only property owners should vote. Owning property ties your financial future to the country’s future. I want voters asking what a policy does to the next twenty years, not just what it puts in their pocket next month.
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"The Electoral College makes it so California and New York don't decide elections" is just one step removed from "California and New York residents should not get to vote" because it fundamentally rejects the idea that certain voters get as much right to win as others.
Cabot Montana
@AmanitaFugax17h
Cannot be emphasized enough how much Republicans view city residents as subhuman. It doesn’t matter if most of the people live there, they’re fake and gay and not real Americans like rurals.
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Anyone who would call themselves "left-YIMBYs" are fully supportive of a land value tax, which is a complete socialization of land rent, so no, left-YIMBYs are not housing Reaganites.
Evil Man@evilkaratesk8erOct 24
“Left-YIMBYism” is one of the funniest things I’ve seen people talk themselves into. Like yeah, I’m a socialist except in the case of housing where I believe in supply-side economics and deregulation. Let’s bulldoze some section 8 housing and sell it to developers
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Caraxes the first@CaraxesFirstOct 24
Capitalism is fucked up because why do I have to EARN a living?
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Also, social housing does nothing to advance the sharing of land rents unless rents are set at market rates, which left-NIMBYs are vehemently against as a matter of principle, so I assume most of it benefits a random subset of the population at the expense of broader society.
Navi 🇺🇲🌐🏗🔰
@Nav236713h
Replying to @_johnsonator
Sure but also social housing's track record doesn't move me. Even in places where it works there seems to be insane wait time that could take many years. Having more private development seems to be the best way to build at scale. Alongside giving housing vouchers to those who can't afford a home.
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"Turning a city into Manhattan is evil" says *checks notes* a resident of New York City.
Kate Willett@katewillettOct 24
“I hope the entire Bay Area gets bulldozed and turned into Manhattan.” I’m so glad this right wing text ideology, taken up by Groundwork, has been unable to infiltrate SF DSA, which continues to fight for tenants.
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bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️
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royce@roycearonieOct 24
YIMBY’s be like” we need to rapidly displace all low income and people of color from the city so we can replace their homes with new homes they can’t afford”
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Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️@LVTYIMBYOct 25
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Anti-Georgists: "Land value tax can be passed on to renters." Me:
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Michael Wiebe
@michael_wiebeOct 24
Ballpark estimates for Vancouver over 30 years: - provincial income tax: $50B - 100% land value tax: $130B We could stop taxing income, start taxing location rents (instead of giving them to homeowners as a windfall gain), and still have $80B left over.
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"We didn't land on X. X landed on us!"
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@lovvewolfOct 24
Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
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Jack Joslin🔰🇺🇦@TheJack_JoslinOct 25
Seize the Land! March on the Beehive! DO IT NOW Q!
Jack Joslin🔰🇺🇦@TheJack_JoslinOct 25
Q! Be the the tax radical the boomers think you are!
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OVERTURN EUCLID VS AMBLER
@The_Fair_GroundOct 25
I have a lot of nuanced opinions about housing/urbanism coalitions but one thing I am not nuanced about is that Georgists and YIMBYS are an absolutely necessary power couple. Every substantive objection to YIMBY policy has is elegantly addressed by georgism.
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OVERTURN EUCLID VS AMBLER
@The_Fair_GroundOct 25
I have a lot of nuanced opinions about housing/urbanism coalitions but one thing I am not nuanced about is that Georgists and YIMBYS are an absolutely necessary power couple. Every substantive objection to YIMBY policy has is elegantly addressed by georgism.
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One of my more satisfying wins in a forum debate was getting an annoying ancap to admit that anarchism is a moral, not a political, philosophy because it cannot actually stop coercion as it is part of the market, i.e. warlords/mobs cannot be abolished by "implenting" anarchism.
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The Homeless Economist@HomelessEconomyOct 25
THIS. A nation is a land trust and Georgists ask you to become trustees instead of permanent rentoids
Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️@LVTYIMBYOct 25
Yes, "society" is the landlord, but here's the good news: everyone is part of society, so that makes everyone their own lords of land. "Society" isn't "your" landlord, YOU are your landlord!
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Yes, "society" is the landlord, but here's the good news: everyone is part of society, so that makes everyone their own lords of land. "Society" isn't "your" landlord, YOU are your landlord!
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Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎
@trevoracornOct 24
Yep. LVT is especially good for cities dealing with a history of population loss and land banking (like Kansas City).
Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️@LVTYIMBYOct 24
One of the more deceptive accusations against a land value tax is that it will "tax people off of land." In reality, an LVT taxes people ON to valuable land or compensates them if they're not residing on valuable land. It perpetually guarantees land to people for life!
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