As the Tax Shift advances, de-taxing work and profit while collecting natural rents, investment is moved in the opposite direction, from extracting natural resources to recycling used materials. On a level playing field, recycling can roll over extraction, sparing forests and the wilderness in general. The PTS is inherently progressive. The site value ratio from city center to rural fringe is typically 2,000 to one. Only the very rich own very valuable land.
Most people own land of less than average value.
Deferring the poor owner's obligation could let them continue to under-use their location. That forces development to inappropriate sites. Government could offer the land-poor a bond of equivalent value in exchange for the land. People are already figuring out how much a parcel is worth. Buyers and sellers do it for each transaction.