This is the only sort of "tax" that I think will eventually emerge in a
society of Spontaneous Order. It will basically scale to reflect how many
others would like to use whatever the property is, and is compatible with
what we think of with adverse possession laws and finders rights etc —
things unclaimed and with no demand can be had for free, but holding
property without extracting value from it / doing something useful with it
will be cost prohibitive.

The tax, then, is basically the price the market sets to remain in
consensus that the property is yours, which in terms of NAP-side force,
means society will have consensus that you're the one using DEFENSIVE force
if a conflict about the property arises.
On Sep 18, 2014 4:27 PM, "Jason King" <beinghomelessisnotacrime@???>
wrote:

> Yeah, you don't even want me to get started on this. It's not even just
> that the empty houses are owned by speculators. The houses many times are
> left to become derelict and the government still enforces the rights of the
> property owner over the human right to shelters.
>
> Whole communities of abandoned, vacant houses. Meanwhile the shelters,
> shanty towns, and satoshi forests are overflowing.
>
> The only glimmer of hope is cities like Detroit that have no ability to
> enforce property rights and so awesome legions of squatters have started
> repopulating empty neighborhoods.
>
> "A squat is an lonely house that sombody cares enough to make a home."
>
> Jason
> On Sep 18, 2014 4:50 PM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
>>
>> This is part of an economic philosophy known as Georgism.
>> The tax is not based on ownership of the land, but a tax from
>> restricting others from using it.
>> The situation is framed not as a tax on a property right, but as a tax
>> on a monopoly right granted with the public.
>> You’re granted a monopoly in exchange for contributing money to the
>> public.
>>
>> Also this is interesting:
>>
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/03/1061611/-STUNNING-When-a-Single-Image-Cuts-to-the-Core-of-an-American-Injustice
>>
>> 24 empty homes for every homeless person as of 2012 in the USA.
>> These homes are owned by real estate speculators and banks, going unused
>> because the property holder finds it more profitable to lock them up
>> than to let anyone live there.
>>
>>
>> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324412604578515382905495900
>>
>>
>> http://seekingalpha.com/article/271265-the-phantom-growth-of-chinas-ghost-cities
>>
>> Also Chinese ghost cities which exist only to hit GDP targets in a
>> country of 250 million rural poor.
>>
>> Now there's a lot of discussion about universal income in places like
>> Switzerland, so money is given to poor to pay landlords rent. So the
>> government in this case is effectively subsidising landlords.
>>
>>
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