> These are assertions, not arguments.

In fact, they are indeed arguments derived from applying well-understood economic principles to the specific -- and purely speculative -- claims posited by the preceding comment.

> Be sure you understand them first; your assertions do not hold in the case of LVT.

Indeed I have, and indeed they do. Rather, your own response attempting to dismiss rather than engage with counter-arguments betrays a likely ideological rather than pragmatic interest in the concept of LVT.