SilverbeardUnix

It would take more than just your neighbor developing their land for your land to increase in value. land value taxes calculate the value of the undeveloped land as in land in denser areas is more valuable than suburban land. Unless all of your neighbor are putting up fourplexes changing the entire makeup of the neighborhood, your land value is unlikely to increase. This can't be said of property value where if your neighbor improves their property, your property value and property taxes might increase as a result.

You pay tax based on unimproved land value so what your neighbor builds doesn't matter. In your scenario, for what you're talking about to happen, everyone in the neighborhood needs to be building fourplexes and opening local businesses which would change the makeup of the entire neighborhood and taxes would adjust accordingly. So no, your neighbor building a duplex doesn't spike grandmas taxes. Under the current system, grandmas neighbor building a fourplex can increase her property value and have her paying a higher property tax anyway.

Knowing how much people suck, I can't imagine "RSS for comments" is something I would want to read.

Flat out wrong. Your choices aren't single family home or highrise. There are numerous other options in between. Duplexs, triplexs, fourplexs, mother-in-law suites, townhomes, live-work homes, cottages. There is a gulf of options in between single family home or NYC highrise.

Same thing.

Land value tax would solve most problems in California.

1. People don't work alone and need to collaborate

2. People value convenience over privacy and security

3. Cloud is easy.

No you don't. There are plenty of games you can buy and go into the wilderness and play just fine offline. Just because game developers WANT you to be online so they can get data doesn't mean you NEED to be online.

When people say fascism are speaking more of an authoritarian nation where corrupt officials use the state to suppress opposition. Modern day Hungary is a good example

That's the problem. H1B visa is for talent that is almost impossible to get domestically. It should be for bringing in actual specialist.

I don't agree with any of this outside of having a standard screen and networking modem. The rest of this is why I think Linux phones are being held back.

I thought Ubuntu Touch forked from Ubuntu and was called UbPorts?

I mean that is what it is. Is there some rule that you can't call it that? Or is it just fascist don't like being called fascist and might go after people who call them fascist? Which is very fascist thing to do by the way.

> and these days, a degree of protection from that thing that is happening in the USA and elsewhere, which is no longer safe to call by its name

I actually don't know what you are referencing.