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How a land-value tax could help fix the U.S. housing crisis As the U.S. faces a housing crunch, a land-value tax could reshape how people afford homes and businesses. Daryl Fairweather. chief economist at Redfin and an Insider Business contributor, joins "CBS ...

...and the appreciation of the economic rents from the land there to passively increase their wealth. Y'all call it escrow but it's all economic rents (ground rents.

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That lesson being, if we the ground rents, the market for a finite resource such as land no longer acts as a zero sum game; the single tax rules make it so no one looses, we all get to stay in the game.

The history of the landlord's game: landlordsgame.info/index.htmlsh...

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Keeping the economic rents of land on the table for private financial gain and restrictive zoning laws have taken away affordable housing.

Land speculation and rent-seeking is the problem.

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