Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️
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Taxes on land value, pollution & IP should replace taxes on work. Split DC into 127 states to achieve a supermajority to make the Constitution fair. #LVT #UBI
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December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Disclaimer: unless not invited to the College Football Playoff.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Han survived a night on Hoth and successfully navigated an asteroid field, the odds of which was 2,701,445 to 1.
Source: R2-D2 and C-3PO
Source: R2-D2 and C-3PO
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
In The Empire Strikes Back, Han survived a night on Hoth and successfully navigated an asteroid field, the odds of which was 2,701,445 to 1.
Source: R2-D2 and C-3PO
Source: R2-D2 and C-3PO
Same energy:
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Same energy:
Polis thinking of replying to this question being @'d to him on X.
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Polis thinking of replying to this question being @'d to him on X.
"Don't blame us; it's too early to fix all the problems caused by the Biden administration. Also, Americans don’t realize how good they have it.”
You have to be fucking kidding me with this shit!
“Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability
“Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Don't blame us; it's too early to fix all the problems caused by the Biden administration. Also, Americans don’t realize how good they have it.”
Polis's legacy on housing further tainted by going from advocating for a land value tax to cutting taxes on land within 8 months. Cowardly caving to the rentier class and trying to spin it as a "prosperity and abundance agenda."
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Polis's legacy on housing further tainted by going from advocating for a land value tax to cutting taxes on land within 8 months. Cowardly caving to the rentier class and trying to spin it as a "prosperity and abundance agenda."
One of history's best movie tag lines to one of history's worst movies.
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
One of history's best movie tag lines to one of history's worst movies.
Didn't realize this before, but Vader saying of Leia "her resistance to the mind probe is considerable" makes a lot more sense when we find out later that she is Anakin's daughter and is strong with the Force. It's mirrored by Rey in The Force Awakens when she resists Kylo's patented probe move.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Didn't realize this before, but Vader saying of Leia "her resistance to the mind probe is considerable" makes a lot more sense when we find out later that she is Anakin's daughter and is strong with the Force. It's mirrored by Rey in The Force Awakens when she resists Kylo's patented probe move.
Another tax on new housing is the improvement side of the property tax. A land value tax (understood as funding a universal building exemption) would solve this.
Inclusionary zoning* is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and drives up housing prices. It’s bad policy and we should stop doing it.
The city of Los Altos charges an inclusionary fee $255,000 per unit for 1500 sq ft townhouses.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Another tax on new housing is the improvement side of the property tax. A land value tax (understood as funding a universal building exemption) would solve this.
Targeting communities primarily comprising nonwhite people is just the KKK with a different acronym. Racism is merely a shortcut for these thugs to plan which areas to target.
Scripps News: DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans.
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DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans
A DHS immigration enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Catahoula Crunch" began earlier this week in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a goal of 5,000 arrests over two months.
www.scrippsnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Targeting communities primarily comprising nonwhite people is just the KKK with a different acronym. Racism is merely a shortcut for these thugs to plan which areas to target.
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Vote Drake if you want a Land Value Tax in cook county!
Here’s the district
Here’s the district
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Vote Drake if you want a Land Value Tax in cook county!
Here’s the district
Here’s the district
I think it's just obvious at this point that college football needs to go to a soccer-style relegation system. The inaugural Premier League of CFB should be based on last 5 seasons of P5 regular season records (if a team not on this list wins 2025 natty, then SMU is knocked off).
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I think it's just obvious at this point that college football needs to go to a soccer-style relegation system. The inaugural Premier League of CFB should be based on last 5 seasons of P5 regular season records (if a team not on this list wins 2025 natty, then SMU is knocked off).
And then they'll claim persecution if you disagree with THEIR religious precepts in any way or how they choose to apply them in the personal or political realm without any sense of irony.
American Christians will tell you antisemitism and Islamophobia aren’t racism because they’re about religion, and religion is totally different from race, and then be completely blindsided by the existence of Christians from China or India or Syria
man now i'm remembering growing up and telling evangelicals that I was an Indian Christian
this somehow blew their mind?
this somehow blew their mind?
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And then they'll claim persecution if you disagree with THEIR religious precepts in any way or how they choose to apply them in the personal or political realm without any sense of irony.
The "14th Amendment was created only to free enslaved black people" is a deliberately myopic view of the 14A that is a legal fiction invented to overturn the plain meaning of the text of the 14A, which meant to free ALL people from arbitrary violations on their liberty via citizenry revocation.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The "14th Amendment was created only to free enslaved black people" is a deliberately myopic view of the 14A that is a legal fiction invented to overturn the plain meaning of the text of the 14A, which meant to free ALL people from arbitrary violations on their liberty via citizenry revocation.
"The area that I live in shall have the built environment which was decided upon at that time's density requirements forever, no matter what the future density requirements are for the area" is an opinion you can only have when you can prioritize your aesthetic preferences over material needs.
Part of being a YIMBY that’s 100% core to me is people may propose things I don’t like or even things that temporarily inconvenience me and that is okay because morally, the balance is that we need more homes more than we need to cater to my preferences
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"The area that I live in shall have the built environment which was decided upon at that time's density requirements forever, no matter what the future density requirements are for the area" is an opinion you can only have when you can prioritize your aesthetic preferences over material needs.
I never got the appeal of journaling, which was basically the act of writing to oneself thoughts that you already had. But now I get that Poasting is just like journaling; I just prefer to do journaling on the internet.
Every once in a while someone accuses me of posting something they don’t agree with “for the likes” and I assure you it is not for the likes or for any reason other than that I am constitutionally incapable of not posting
December 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I never got the appeal of journaling, which was basically the act of writing to oneself thoughts that you already had. But now I get that Poasting is just like journaling; I just prefer to do journaling on the internet.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Which is why the white nationalist MAGA movement hates it.
Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Which is why the white nationalist MAGA movement hates it.
This implies the median Trumper is "culturally normal" and not "judgmental." Has he met the median Trumper?
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This implies the median Trumper is "culturally normal" and not "judgmental." Has he met the median Trumper?
Dukes > Duke
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Dukes > Duke
It's just a matter of physics that no two households can domicile themselves in the same location; any person's existence is a displacement event on another when it comes to residing at the best locations. The only holistic way to compensate for displacement effects is through a land value tax.
Left-NIMBYs criticize YIMBYs for defending "luxury" housing being built in high demand areas because they claim they want "affordable" housing built in high demand areas. The common refrain is "area," which means a land value tax would solve this.
December 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's just a matter of physics that no two households can domicile themselves in the same location; any person's existence is a displacement event on another when it comes to residing at the best locations. The only holistic way to compensate for displacement effects is through a land value tax.