- I don't live in SV

- I don't hate taxes

- I wasn't babysitting this thread

- The idea that, of all things, regressive sales tax is the only conceivable and fair thing to get state tax revenues from is ridiculous.

Tax land value, most of the appreciation in land value is windfall gain.

I'm strongly supportive of the LVT, but I'm not sure it can be the only tax strategy for every locality in a large and extremely heterogeneous country. Not every locality is seeing rapid appreciation in real estate values.

It doesn't have to be the only strategy, but sales tax isn't the only tax either, and LVT doesn't depend on appreciation.