Land rent is either publicly collected or privately captured. It is a measure of the exclusion of others and a measure of public service costs toward equally benefited land. So there aren’t really any downsides to it although many do draw flawed conclusions based on concepts like ‘ability to pay’.

Ah but have you considered that health insurance CEOs are the equivalent of Bin Laden?

Your point is interesting, although the reason this is popping back into the news now is as a roundabout way to rationalize murder. Would be great to criticize the US uniquely monopolistic and state-induced employer-sponsored heatlh insurance system more generally!

Increase in Liberal Views Brings Ideological Parity on Social Issues Americans have become significantly more likely to identify as liberal in their views on social issues over the past 25 years. Liberal views on economic issues, too, have increased, but still lean con...

Do you think the polls that show ‘economically liberal’ views align with economic liberalism? news.gallup.com/poll/645776/...

California isn’t on track to meet its climate change mandates — and a new analysis says it’s not even close A new analysis concludes that unless CA almost triples its rate of cutting greenhouse gases, the state will fail to meet its 2030 climate change mandate.

Alas, there is no equitable decarbonization occurring. calmatters.org/environment/... and of course emissions are merely one element to a sustainable planet. Sadly, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss simply do not get the same level of attention that our inadequate emission reductions gets.