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Comment by dennis_jeeves2

1 day ago

>I'm curious as to how you think we should divide up who gets what plots, can you explain how that works?

This is not going to be easy. But it can be done even if it's done imperfectly. For example all the fertile land can be divided equally and the infertile ones equally - so an individual will have multiple plots. There are other issues also - for example what happens if someone decides to have 10 + children. In certain locations around the world people have essentially out bred the land resources that they have.

Of course one might ask why should one bother with all of this complexity I stated above? One has to compare it with the current situation which I think is the greater of the evils:

1) government decides the property tax. In many situations people are edged out of their own properties because they cannot afford the property tax.

2) it goes against the very principle that citizens own their land and not the government. The current state of affairs is the other way around.

3) People do not have ways to live off their own land like they used to in the past, now they have to have jobs. If they do not have jobs then they have to have a social security, which leads to a whole bunch of other issues.

4) tax complications.

Let me phrase the overall problem in another way - how do we prevent government from excessively controlling our lives, and have the citizens truly owning their own land without having to 'rent' it from the government?