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jaredklewistoday at 5:07 AM4 repliesview on HN

A land value tax would fix rich people parking money in real estate. A wealth tax or capital gains tax would not.


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fakedangtoday at 5:43 AM

A wealth tax would also be beneficial in reducing wasteful stock buybacks. Without any benefits from high stock prices, boards and shareholders will be less inclined to impose those price targets on CEOs, CEOs will be less incentivised to "cheat" on quarter-based performance and the myopic share price performance view of their companies, hence will reduce stock buybacks and returning money to shareholders. That leaves very few options - either reinvest into the company or pay out dividends, and the latter is unfavorable for shareholders compared to the former.

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globalnodetoday at 5:51 AM

better off taxing people that own more than 1 property and leave people just trying to live alone.

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ryan_lanetoday at 5:11 AM

If a land value tax would fix rich people from parking money in real estate, it would price regular people out of real estate.

I know LVT is the libertarian dream, but in practice it means only the rich can own real estate long-term, in most cities. It also means the rich can drive out the poor by driving up land values around them, to the point where the taxes are too much to afford.

LVT simply wouldn't be a good system, if applied in the real world.

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