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We do - it’s called property tax. How do you think local police, firefighters, schools, parks, services are funded? By land taxes.


I have no idea what country you're in, maybe wherever you live has that (albeit most likely it's woefully insufficient).

I'd just add that a property tax isn't that, because it also taxes the building.


It’s property value + land value. Even if I make 0 improvements to my property my tax seems to go up every year. It’s because the property value has gone up even if the improvements haven’t.


Yeah that's a property tax, not a land tax. Far from ideal because it punishes people for improving the land that they're occupying, which is the opposite of what we want to be doing.


I guess the affect really depends on where you live. Where I am land is really expensive. So even if you owned an undeveloped piece of land, your taxes would still be significant.

But I see what you’re saying. In a lot of places the land and taxes are relatively cheap.




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