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AnimalMuppetyesterday at 2:51 AM0 repliesview on HN

No, I'm not going to watch a video to see what your point is. Either tell me, or don't.

Re your last paragraph: I admit I'm surprised by that. Still... Georgism calls for a tax only on the value of the land, not on the improvements. Of all that money in real estate, how much is in the improvements, and how much is in the raw land?

> This figure includes only high quality retail property, offices, industrial, hotels, residential, other commercial uses, and agricultural land

From this I gather that a large chunk of it is the improvements.

And, if real estate is the biggest category, why focus just on the land part of that, and ignore all the improvements on it?

This article is about a wealth tax. The arguments for Georgism are about something else - about social policy. It may even work as social policy, though I have at least some doubts. But as a wealth tax, it's not very effective. (If I were a rich person, I could buy a $100 million apartment in New York, and have the rest of my assets in stocks and gold and art, and my tax liability would be for my pro-rated fraction of the land that the high rise that held my apartment occupied. As a wealth tax, that's got far too many loopholes to be useful.)