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Old 02-01-2007, 06:01 PM   #11 (permalink)
Trevor
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Originally Posted by tristanrobin View Post
I believe that if you took the number of residents, and the number of actual "properties" in NYC, there would always be a HUGE discrepency between land-owners and non-land-owners. It's not unusual for one property to house 1000 residents. Why should that one land-owner be stuck with all the taxes for the other 999 residents?
The counter question is this: Why should this one landlord be allowed to collect the land rent from the 999 tenents? Did the landlord create the land? Why should he be allowed to collect this rent for himself? (Notice that I'm not talking about rent from building use.)
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