Comment by dinp

Somehow the idea of perpetually paying property taxes and land value taxes doesn't sound appealing to me, especially since businesses already pay taxes. I don't understand the argument of designing a system to hurt a specific business type such as low value businesses. If there's a loophole such as lack of sales tax for car washes, fix that, but let the playing field remain even. If desirable high value businesses aren't able to compete with car washes, isn't that the market doing it's thing? Introducing additional property and land value taxes might discourage low value businesses, but what are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of such a change?