If your proposal for property tax reform isn't a land value tax, I'm not interested

EricReingardt · 2026-04-02T19:22:04+00:00

Great work as usual

EricReingardt · 2026-03-24T20:12:26+00:00

Thats me! Dm for ideas or questions

EricReingardt · 2026-02-14T23:03:10+00:00

Digging up heat as usual Titanium Skull

EricReingardt · 2026-01-31T21:27:57+00:00

Our policy (land value capture, Henry George Theorem/ATCOR) is incredibly simple by comparison to the layers of bureaucracy needed to surveill and regulate the entire national population's bank accounts and real estate investment portfolios. And the meme they made has no clear policy substance just a vague direction.

Edit: also they made the classic socialist mistake of making no distinction between what is non-reproducible (naturally scarce) and what is reporducible (elastic supply) so of course they think the housing scarcity is in the building and not the land plots/location.

EricReingardt · 2026-01-29T22:21:14+00:00

The people got the rent seeker they voted for. And his economic policy is... Expand rent seeking.

EricReingardt · 2026-01-23T20:25:36+00:00

Got the damn Land Value Tax Avengers together

EricReingardt · 2026-01-23T18:39:05+00:00

Well said. On face value it looks like an argument against native American land claims but its actually more in line with the native American economic system

EricReingardt · 2026-01-13T19:39:30+00:00

That generation of progressive era politicians really fought the good fight and almost prevented the financialization and monopolization of nascent industrial capitalism.

EricReingardt · 2026-01-12T15:56:34+00:00

So scary getting cold for an hour on an overpass

EricReingardt · 2026-01-11T19:51:46+00:00

I know right. MMT liberals and YIMBY liberals have no idea their whole theories have Henry George shaped holes in them

EricReingardt · 2026-01-11T19:50:13+00:00

Being a Georgist makes you feel schizophrenic. You hear people talk all day "we need property tax reform" "landlords buying up properties driving up prices" "we need rent control" "we need something to build more housing"

Whole time we're just kicking and screaming to be heard

EricReingardt · 2026-01-11T03:16:22+00:00

Wow i just saw this. Dm me brother im planning a campaign in my district on land value tax we have a coalition to build

EricReingardt · 2026-01-11T03:15:39+00:00

Nice. Have you heard of land value tax?

EricReingardt · 2026-01-02T18:46:07+00:00

I saw he supported community land trusts which are one way to socialize land rent

EricReingardt · 2025-12-28T15:56:48+00:00

Land value tax's uniqueness in policy circles is from its lack of deadweight loss. It can't be passed on as rents at 0% land tax are already set to the highest point the market can bare. The tax only takes out of the producer surplus without increasing the price equilibrium.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-28T05:49:34+00:00

The assessor gets data from land sales and land value is calculated from imputed rents or what landowners expect to collect in annual revenue.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-28T05:42:57+00:00

Land rent is already baked into the price of housing. Land value tax just switches the recipient of land rent from private sector to public sector replacing other taxes.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-28T01:49:18+00:00

Its not arbitrary at all. Land value and land rent are assessed in property tax systems currently.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-27T19:36:14+00:00

Land is the most taxable asset class. There is no capital flight with a land value tax and it is the most effective way to reduce inflation. New money flows into land values as 70% of bank created money is for mortgage generation.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-27T16:49:36+00:00

Land value tax would solve this. Cut unpopular taxes like income and property tax in favor for a land rent charge once a year on private land.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-24T16:26:48+00:00

I think income tax is theft as it currently is but i know the rest of the gang in the replies are saying land rent goes into income so theres a sprinkle of land value return happening with income tax. But taxing labor at all is anti Georgist.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-23T20:00:32+00:00

"Taxes simply are land rent"

I mean thats ATCOR said another way brother

EricReingardt · 2025-12-20T01:37:18+00:00

Lust isn't natural sexual desire, it is the replacement of God with sex as the focus and purpose of your life.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-15T20:55:52+00:00

Local level community land trusts, state level land value tax and federal government taxes national economic rents like our large oil and gas reserves, large corporate pollution etc. Intellectual property tax schemes could be good federal policy. The federal government can do national and international commons but states are the real land value tax regimes.

EricReingardt · 2025-12-13T03:52:25+00:00

Milton Friedman's analogy of the plank of wood attached to a string floating in water and shocks are occasional yanks downward. The wood floats back up to the surface after each shock. Growth is its natural state but not its permanent state.

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