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The most common practical objection to LVT — that you can't separate land value from building value — and the empirical and methodological responses to it.
The objection that land rent is too small to fund modern government, and the responses around hidden rent, ATCOR, and realistic revenue targets.
The 'little old lady in a valuable house' objection — that LVT could force out land-rich but cash-poor owners — and the well-established mechanisms that resolve it.
Introducing LVT capitalizes into an immediate fall in land prices, hitting current owners who bought at untaxed prices — and how a phased transition addresses it.
The claim that land value tax is nothing new because we already have property taxes — and why taxing land alone produces fundamentally different incentives.
The worry that a land value tax would crush farmers who own large acreages — and why low rural land values mean the opposite is generally true.
If capturing land value worked, why are Singapore and Hong Kong so expensive? Because capturing rent for revenue is a different goal from making housing cheap.
The Austrian-school objections to land value taxation — that land is just capital, that government can't calculate land value, and that LVT violates property rights — and the Georgist responses.