Comments on: Rent asunder https://www.themintmagazine.com/rent-asunder/ Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:59:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Rob Slack https://www.themintmagazine.com/rent-asunder/#comment-30073 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:59:42 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30581#comment-30073 “Housing is eating up an ever-larger proportion not only of individual incomes, (sic) but of national output.”

How do such payments “eat” national output? Consuming resources and paying money to foreigners “eats” output. Buying existing houses and paying rents just swishes the dosh around. Things may be bad but it does not “eat” national output.

The solution to the underlying problem would appropriate potential output, as resources were conmmitted to building homes.

]]> By: Thpmas Mann https://www.themintmagazine.com/rent-asunder/#comment-29491 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:40:12 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30581#comment-29491 But emphasize that other taxes such as fuel, income tax, stamp duties, etc. would fall away completely as the land value tax, would more than fill the municipal incomes and encourage improvements to the existing housing stock as rates increases would be done away with.

]]> By: Bill https://www.themintmagazine.com/rent-asunder/#comment-29359 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:36:12 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30581#comment-29359 This is incredibly defeatist /and or written by a comfortable home-owning writer

Do please look into how a land value tax could help both the housing and economic productivity problems of the UK (and similar western economies)

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