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Well, in the US at least, the one who first claimed the land is the one who built a cabin there, often broke the land to the plow, and then held it against anyone who tried to take it from them. It wasn't just "claiming" the land. They had to work to improve it.

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Conveniently ignoring the people who might have lived there before for millennia?

Or even just the Mexicans from whom large parts of the US where conquered? (How Mexico got the land is another story.)

So LVT separates the value created by your labor (building the cabin, plowing, etc) from the value you did not create. I think its more just than taxing, i.e. cabins or crops.

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