It seems like you’re assuming farmers don’t get taxed on land. According to a brief Google search, “Nationally, 1.9 million farms paid $9.4 billion in property taxes.”
The question would be whether removing that in favor of a land tax would really change that. I’m not sure it would make it worse, given that there are (relatively speaking) fewer “property” improvements on top of the land in a farm.
Either way, I don’t think this is a fair reason to dismiss LVT outright, as it completely depends on the implementation.
> It seems like you’re assuming farmers don’t get taxed on land. According to a brief Google search, “Nationally, 1.9 million farms paid $9.4 billion in property taxes.”
So, for all of the farm land we average to ~5k/farmer? It sounds like what is being discussed in this thread is a tax that would be debilitating to the land speculation market. 5k would not prevent a speculator from holding a plot of land.
The question would be whether removing that in favor of a land tax would really change that. I’m not sure it would make it worse, given that there are (relatively speaking) fewer “property” improvements on top of the land in a farm.
Either way, I don’t think this is a fair reason to dismiss LVT outright, as it completely depends on the implementation.