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Dominic Frisby. A simple guide to land value tax

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2 HN users recommended this explainer3 months2016–2020 score 3.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN users share it as a short, accessible explainer for land value tax whenever housing, rents or inequality come up.

Comedian Dominic Frisby gives a ten-minute explanation of land value tax. He argues it would fix problems of rent-seeking and the economics of land ownership.

“Land value tax explained in 10 minutes” (HN, 2020)

1 strong recommendations · 3 recommendations · 1 citations · Explainers · intro

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@branchless Aug 2018 Recommends
on HN thread Bullshit Jobs
Spot on. Spare time would allow us to conclude we can expunge rentiers. Here is a video on land value tax, which would fix our messed up feudal economies: [this video] Posting here as shadow banned after two posts because Hacker News hates any kind of free speech.
Explains land value tax as fix for rentier economies.
@amiga_500 Jan 2020 Recommends
on HN thread How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)
[link] > Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George > towards the end of his life, Tolstoy become more and more occupied with the economic theory and social philosophy of Georgism. > He spoke of great admiration of Henry George, stating once that "People do not argue with the teaching of George; they simply do not know it. And it is impossible to do otherwise with his teaching, for he who becomes acquainted with it cannot but agree." Land value tax explained in 10 minutes: [this video]
Land value tax explained in ten minutes.

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@ZenoArrow Jan 2016 Cites it
on HN thread Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version
Depends on how you tax them. We could get rid of income tax and still strive towards reducing some of the issues surrounding income inequality. [this video]
Land value tax as alternative to income tax.

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