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Can you explain what, if any, difference there is between LVT and georgism? How do we know simply building more wouldn't lower the returns on real estate and naturally disincentive using real estate as in investment vehicle? I guess maybe federal level taxes are basically un-repealable whereas construction has a strong local component? I understand there's complicated feedback effects here. For example, buildings be effectively illegal precisely where it's needed most.

Would decoupling education funding from local taxes do anything? I'm thinking maybe it decreases the incentive to hold on to a house thus increasing effective mobility/geographic diffusion? Probably a small effect but it seems possible it could have second order effects.



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