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Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 40m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Land Value Tax is the low hanging policy fruit you were searching for.

#LVT

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 40m

Land Value Tax would boost competitiveness and economic growth, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

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Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 40m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 44m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

#LVT

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 44m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 44m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 47m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 47m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 47m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1 1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 49m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 49m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 49m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 50m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 50m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 50m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1 1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 51m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 51m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 51m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 52m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 52m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 52m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 54m

Vacant homes would be released onto the market and undeveloped sites with planning permission would be developed.

Both would increase supply and moderate the prices of overpriced housing.

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 54m

The economy would become more competitive, as fixed costs fall and taxes on productive activities fall.

The speculative misallocation of capital currently in inflated location values would flow back into productive business investment.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 54m

It would be much better to only tax the land value.

Land Value Tax would deliver the best outcome without the deadweight loss of taxing the buildings too, which penalises improvements.

If significant and if it substituted existing taxes, the housing crisis would end and economic growth would rise.

1

Rislandr 🇪🇺 🔰 @rislandr.bsky.social · 1h

What a huge mistake!

How about promoting the clean meat and plant-based food sectors in Europe instead?

Adapting our diet to the reality of climate change is by far the easiest and least intrusive action we can take as individuals that significantly reduces our carbon emissions.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1h

The European Parliament voted today to ban plant-based and lab-grown products from having meat-related names such as “burger,” “sausage” or “steak” on their labels.

EU lawmakers back ‘veggie burger’ ban

The European Parliament slips prohibition of plant-based “burgers” into wider farm reform, sparking NGO outrage and political splits.

www.politico.eu