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If the tenant maintains or materially increases the value of the property, then the tenant should be rewarded.
stereotomy says
Full disclosure - I'm renting.
How dare you !
stereotomy says
If the tenant maintains or materially increases the value of the property, then the tenant should be rewarded.
I think the most common case by far is that if the tenant increases the value of the property, the tenant is thoroughly punished with higher rent.
And this is central to Henry George's argument that work is disincentivized by the fact that landlords can effectively steal the result of that work, and in fact can steal wages from whatever labor is going on in the area. This makes the whole society poorer.
Corruption does the same thing. In many countries, if you bother to create anything of value, the ruling mafia family will simply take it from you. So no one even bothers.
People need to feel secure that they can reap the results of their own labor before they will work hard. Landlords create insecurity for labor.
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This - good landlords look for responsible stewards of their property. It's a give and take. If the tenant maintains or materially increases the value of the property, then the tenant should be rewarded.
I've been a tenant for poor and rich landlords. Poor landlords are the worst - it's all about the $$. Better-off landlords are more concerned with property stewardship. If you're a renter, but you have skills, and can make the landlord's job as easy as possilble, you need to be rewarded - i.e., don't raise the rent.
Full disclosure - I'm renting.
1. LTV is not the same as property tax.
No shit Sherlock
2. Their is a natural limit you can raise your rent to before your tenants move out.
No shit but people have to live somewhere
While MGTOW is great, how can the political side of this problem be addressed? Libertarianism is basically the answer since government spending and taxation needs to be reduced. However, what is the correct size of government? Libertarians will talk about small government, but just how small would government end up if Libertarians controlled the government? Republicans also talk about small government, yet anytime Republicans have had control of all three branches of the federal government, they have failed to reduce the size of government. Republicans also routinely abandon their principles to white knight for women. There is no reason to assume that Libertarianism won’t fall victim to the same thing, especially when it comes to white knighting for women.
How do we get around this problem? We need a political system that has a specific principle of never taxing (male) productivity. It turns out that such a thing has been devised, and it is called Geolibertarianism. What Geolibertarianism does is combine libertarianism with Geoism or Georgism. The name, Georgism, comes from the fact that the geoist side of this was popularized by the economist Henry George. George and earlier economists, including Adam Smith and David Ricardo, (in addition to Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine) were advocates of a land value tax. Even Milton Friedman called the land value tax the least bad tax. The land value tax is a tax on land and land only. It does not tax anything built on that land or done on that land. It can not tax production or any form of productivity by design. Because of this, advocates of the land value tax advocate it a single tax where there are no other taxes.
With only land (and anything else that meets the economic definition of land like natural resources and the electromagnetic spectrum) getting taxed in this system, it puts a ceiling on government spending. Thus it forces the end of government redistribution from men to women. It also adds a barrier to implementing additional taxes since any tax on anything that isn’t land is verboten by design. Geolibertarianism won’t stop politicians from trying to tax (male) productivity, but in a Geolibertarian system any attempt to do that is immediately suspect so there will be a built in backlash whenever a politician tries to tax productivity. It is telling that socialists and other leftists hate Geolibertarianism (and Georgism more broadly). Karl Marx hated it, and a likely reason is that it repudiates his ideas by showing that labor and capital are not the separate things he said they are. Paul Krugman admitted that the land value tax was efficient but that it could not be used to fund a welfare state. While Barack Obama has not commented on this, it is a stake in the heart of his, “You didn’t build that” because Geolibertarianism identifies the only things a man didn’t build.
http://www.antifeministtech.info/how-geolibertarianism-can-stop-redistribution-from-men-to-women/
@Patrick
Just happened to come across this looking for pro-male companies. Unsurprisingly, I had to use Duckduckgo as Google gave nothing but Guardian, Jezebel, Cosmo, etc. articles celebrating the end of "Toxic Masculinity"