Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> Land is in fixed supply and everyone needs land to work, sleep, and exist upon.

For those who are convinced supply&demand doesn't work for dwellings, buy a rental and charge 10x the market rate. See how that goes. This applies to any business. For example, try selling something on Amazon/Ebay/Etsy/Craigslist. You can charge whatever you like for it. Whether someone will buy it is another thing entirely.

Everyone needs food, too, but ironically it's the unneeded food (like Starbucks) that's expensive.



Well, Starbucks (overpriced garbage coffee) is something like 50 times more expensive than making coffee at home.

If you work in an expensive city, pay $2000 for one room, good luck finding a room for $40.

It is precisely the problem that you cannot opt out of the housing market, at least when you need a calm and safe environment to think.

Even when you don't, it is probably illegal to set up a tent somewhere, and legal camping sites are pretty expensive and horrible, too.


Today how that goes is you get huge tax cuts for not making money and keeping valuable resources off the market.

How that should go is you get taxed at the same rate as if you had set it at a price it could be rented at, therefore encouraging you to set your price correctly.

That’s the LVT, that’s basically the entire thing.


> huge tax cuts for not making money

Nobody pays income tax if they aren't making money. That's why they're called "income" taxes.


Yep, and that’s why I’m advocating a “land value” tax instead.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: