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Land value tax as the non-distortionary tax

Land is the one valuable asset owners did not create, and there is both a moral and economic case for taxing it: a land value tax is non-distortionary (unlike income, sales, or capital gains taxes which distort productivity and commerce), could replace those taxes while funding government, leads to the most productive use of land, and addresses housing problems and entrenched inequality—the only barrier being that implementing it would require a 'revolution.'

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Speaker

Michael Muthukrishna

Evidence Quote

There's one tax that is non-distortionary... that is land value taxes. So the one asset that people own that they did not create... is land.

Source

255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of EveryoneSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:31 AM

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