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At least in the UK, all freeholds should be the property of the state and ground rent should replace council tax. IMHO

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 18th, 2007 at 09:51:59 AM EST
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Exactly (of course freeholds technically belong to "the Crown" already): but for State read municipality.

I would advocate a couple of forms (and its not either/or) of "rental".

One is a "location benefit levy" based upon the amount of land occupied and the location/desirability of it, as measured by land rental value.

This levy would be pooled and redistributed evenly to members of the "Community Partnership" resulting in a net transfer from those who have exclusive use of more, and more "desirable", land to those who have less.

The second is a levy based upon income (or production of land, for farms) eg x% of income goes into a pot, is pooled and redistributed evenly.

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri May 18th, 2007 at 03:17:55 PM EST
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None of this changes the fact that you still have to pay to play.

And most people will have a hard time affording either.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 07:21:11 AM EST
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