Why “taxed” is being discussed
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Sorry, what is your actual objection here? I'm not saying anyone should be forced to sell below market price - I'm saying the market price is inflated by the the cost of land: L…
by ForHackernews · Sep 27, 2026
The evidence I've seen suggests that the most common source of scarcity is restrictions on trade, like taxation. "What if we had taxed the internet? "What was once framed as a t…
by ETH_start · Sep 27, 2026
It takes ~30 minutes to turn around a nightly hotel room, front desk check-in and other labor can easily make that >1h of labor per room per day. Even in the budget industry, yo…
by onlyrealcuzzo · Sep 27, 2026
To an economist, the highest and best use of the land around disneyland is not my home. It's not housing. It's hotels, motels, restaurants. So my land would now be taxed at that…
by arwineap · Sep 27, 2026
You can't tax "the land". You tax the owner. The money doesn't come from the land but whatever source of income the owner has. That's what you are really taxing. To actually tax…
by bugake · Sep 27, 2026
Historically, borders in inhospitable regions where the government cannot project power used to be vague. Early Medieval European kingdoms usually had border forests, sometimes…
by inglor_cz · Sep 27, 2026
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A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on an individual or legal entity by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to regulate economic activity through measures designed to mitigate negative externalities. Tax compliance refers to policy actions and individual behavior aimed at ensuring that taxpayers are paying the right amount of tax at the right time and securing the correct tax allowances and tax relief. Read more on Wikipedia