"Georgist" Idea of Disused Land Tax Gains Steam

``Seemingly without knowing it, Mr. Duggan, a Democrat in his third term, was espousing what generations of policy minds consider one of the best ideas nobody will listen to: the land-value tax. The notion that land is an undertaxed resource -- and that this distorts markets in destructive ways -- unites libertarians and socialists, has brought business owners together with labor groups and is lauded by economists as a "perfect tax." And yet despite all that agreement, there are just a handful of examples of this policy in action, and none in America that match the Detroit proposal in scale.''