A Georgist-style land value tax (LVT) is fairer and has the added benefit of ending land speculation, a practice that leads to distortions in the housing market and harmful property boom-bust cycles.
You may be opposed to all taxes, but if you acknowledge the need for some kind of tax, it at least has some kind of rational and seemingly fair justification.
Yes, I am fine with taxes, but not with any type of tax, not property taxes (it is bought with money already taxed) and not with taxes as punishment or taxes as political games. I am opposed to taxes as a purpose, I am for taxes as a means to pay for some universal services that you cannot pay by consumption.
This is why there’s so many complicated rules around land, it doesn’t fit neatly into a defined yours-or-mine category.
Georgism allows exclusive use of land—ideally without restriction unless it affects neighbors through pollution—it just asks that landowners pay for that exclusivity on an ongoing basis. If they no longer wish to pay, or no longer can pay, then the market can allocate that land to someone who will pay. It’s a pro-development system that calls for increasingly limited land to be put to economic use, unless that land just isn’t very useful/valuable.
I just think it’s better than other forms of taxation. I don’t see why I should need to report my income or employment to the government, nor do I see why I should be taxed on my labor. To me this is much less justifiable (and much more invasive) than just taxing land.
Why do you “own” land? Who first owned it to have the right to sell it? Usually land ownership claims eventually go back to violent conquest. Why did the conqueror who stole it have the right to sell it? Why should we treat the claims that descended from this as inviolate?