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That's honestly more a question for physicists and chemists. Biologists in my experience take a lot for granted because they don't really understand the fundamentals on small scales.

Georgism 6 years ago

Depends on the state. Several state have no income tax. New Hampshire lacks income and sales tax.

Georgism 6 years ago

It should be fairly simple to take the original price of installing the components of the house and calculate depreciation. Non-improved value = market value - depreciated home value

Obviously you'd have to keep tracking the improvements over time.

That sounds pretty close to the third option except you want to limit expropriation to renting. How's that going to work? You think all the landlords will sell to the city? For how much? Can people buy houses from the city to live in them? Where does additional housing come from considering that it's currently not enough? How does the city determine prices and how does it prioritize who gets which place?

I've heard a similar sentiment from a researcher that's specialized in fusion. How do you know that money is the main hindrance? Could we say the same thing for other areas of research, like room temperature super conductors or the unification of quantum theory with gravity? In any area more money may or may not lead to a significant progress, but how do you know that's definitely the case for fusion?