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mywittyname
on May 1, 2018
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To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing st...
I think you should cite actual research rather than thought-experiments from 18th century philosophers.
GabrielBen
on May 1, 2018
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Milton friedman was an advocate of LVT, and I think stiglitz or krugman as well. There is economic consensus on LVT being good, although how good it is is hard to know, as LVT is a very hard tax to politically pass.
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