If we are going full Georgist, yes, even the government would pay taxes on its own land, which includes the land for roads and railways.
For what it's worth, it's not uncommon for Georgists to also favor extraction taxes for natural resources like gold.
The Georgist answer is that the government wouldn't decide the value of the land, the market would. If the government is setting it, it's almost certainly not pricing it optimally.
Land is taxed at very low rates, and it's almost always bundled with property taxes. Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%. That's a huge difference from what we have in…
I once heard someone say that land value taxes would be worth it even if we burned the tax revenue. I almost agree with that. The point of land value taxes is not just that it raises money, it's so the downstream…
I've written one small open source library, which I publicized a little bit back when I first released it. Like you said, I wrote it mostly to scratch my own itch, but it was really nice to see it get some use out in…
Empirically, this does not happen. It's a company of like 70,000 employees. You're not going to be able to guess the people involved when the company is that size. Maybe if it was a company on the order of 100s of…
If we are going full Georgist, yes, even the government would pay taxes on its own land, which includes the land for roads and railways.
For what it's worth, it's not uncommon for Georgists to also favor extraction taxes for natural resources like gold.
The Georgist answer is that the government wouldn't decide the value of the land, the market would. If the government is setting it, it's almost certainly not pricing it optimally.
Land is taxed at very low rates, and it's almost always bundled with property taxes. Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%. That's a huge difference from what we have in…
I once heard someone say that land value taxes would be worth it even if we burned the tax revenue. I almost agree with that. The point of land value taxes is not just that it raises money, it's so the downstream…
I've written one small open source library, which I publicized a little bit back when I first released it. Like you said, I wrote it mostly to scratch my own itch, but it was really nice to see it get some use out in…
Empirically, this does not happen. It's a company of like 70,000 employees. You're not going to be able to guess the people involved when the company is that size. Maybe if it was a company on the order of 100s of…