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I'd point to property taxes as a plausible way this can happen. They're already a non-trivial consideration for people looking at low-tech self-sufficiency, and I can only see this getting more pronounced.

(This is something in the back of my mind whenever I hear calls for a shift to land value taxation. I can't really see it happening in a way that doesn't further normalise wage labour).

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This will be a big thing. We could give people an allowance of a certain amount of land that is tax-free (as we have in the UK for income).

In the longer term, government could also be self-sufficient. This might be unstable though, it might be better for there to be a contribution of materials/energy/information to the the government from self-sufficient communities. The government would still provide the value of protection/arbitration to the self-sufficient communities.

Agree an allowance would be a sensible way to go about this. But given that, as far as I can tell, most of the motivation for an LVT in the UK is some variant of "stick it to small private landlords", I think it's unlikely.

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