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Originally Posted by
ClydeCoulter
Roy L says LVT is oh so perfect....hmmm
I have explained why it is better. Not perfect.
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How would LVT be any different than any other tax, in the sense of theft?
It redresses a theft.
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I hear talk of all kinds of alternative tax ideas, but once a tax is made into law, anything goes. Raise the tax rate, change what is taxable under the tax, etc... What's the saying, "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile".
So your objection to LVT is that it might not be implemented as proposed?? How illogical is that? In fact, because it is so simple and transparent, it is much harder to screw with LVT than with other taxes.
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Ownership is not the problem, greed is the problem.
Like owning a slave, owning land is inherently greedy.
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Everyone does not own the land just because they are born.
People have rights just because they are born. That is kinda the point of rights.
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And Roy, stop taking sentences out of context. I said, in an emergency I might sell to help out (not because I couldn't pay the mortgage).
Are you saying you don't recognize an obligation to repay your mortgage any more than to repay the land value the community gives you?
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Under the current circumstances, ownership of things is the only way to defend against theft.
Ownership of natural resources IS theft from all who would otherwise be at liberty to use them.
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Until much more than "whose owns land" is straightened out, I don't trust anyone with the land that sits under my house other than myself.
But you think everyone else should have to trust you with it...?
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Otherwise, the land under my house could be taxed away, auctioned to the highest tax payer or what ever.
Or monopolized by a guy who deprives everyone else of the advantages it confers...
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No, I did not say that foreclosure or a tax lean is better, theft of my house is theft of my house.
And theft of the land is theft of the land.