Land value tax-planks

* I want lower taxes on home owners.
* I want real relief for the elderly.
* I want economic vitality for the urban community, without higher sales and income taxes.
The land value tax solution promotes stability and fairness for residents and businesses in our urban community.
* I'll work hard to gradually replace and return to the practice where city government we do away with property tax and deploy Land Value Tax.
* Each person aged 65 or over would get a per capita grant from local tax revenues. If tax rates
have to be raised slightly, younger residents will still pay less than if sales or income taxes replace residential property taxes. (Proposed by Tom Paine.)
==Insights==
==MR==
I'd much rather tax land and not labor and not capital. 
Taxation of land and site values makes for a sane and safe funding of government and schools.
We should use policy to reward initiative, not punish it. When you tax labor, labor leaves. When you tax capital, capital flows elsewhere. But, when you tax land, we have an ideal solution as land can't leave. Land comes with privilege. There is no harm in taxing privilege. 
Land taxation serves as a brake against the epidemic of boom and bust of land speculation. Land speculators are detrimental to Main Street neighborhoods and smaller towns in the region. Land tax can combat sprawl without breaking the public treasury. Land tax policy helps the disadvantaged without establishing layers of intrusive and uncaring bureaucracy.
==Links==
* Land value tax
category: Platform_Planks_from_Mark_Rauterkus