> Owners hate property taxes and land values are less than property values. Why not slowly switch to using land values and lower everyone's property tax bill?
Separately, I would suggest being very careful about claims like this.
>This proposal doesn't involve any forced moves, owners only auction when they want to sell their land.
The article already lists two counterexamples that aren't uncommon situations...
>There will be situations where the valuation growth from point 5 outpaces the true value of the house. The owner can update the land value by putting the land up for public auction, but they have to win that auction fair and square. If they win the auction, the land value is updated to their new bid, but no money changes hands (essentially, they pay themselves for...
The tragedy is our continued focus on the symbolically superior pure electrics over the vastly better for the planet hybrid vehicles.
Pure electric vehicles can have non-symbolic benefits too, though maybe not environmental ones. In our case, we would very rarely have use for the option to use gasoline. By going purely electric, we avoid: 1) a bunch of maintenance, such as oil changes; 2) worrying about the price of gas, where convenient gas stations are, or even about the shelf life of gas (if you go through it slowly enough it can actually go bad in...
This strikes me as something akin to a not-quite alternating Prisoners' Dilemma. The party in power can unilaterally take the selfish option (goose the economy for electoral benefit) or not. Over time there are three types of outcomes. 1) if you act selfishly when given the chance and I don't, I'm a chump (and vice versa); 2) if neither of us act selfishly, we're even; and 3) if we both act selfishly we're still even, but the economy is worse overall because we keep flooding the information system (prices) with noise.
One natural solution would be for all p...
Death is foreseeable?
(Well, okay, yes, but the timing often isn't.)