One state, BW, in Germany took the opportunity with the reform of the property taxes to implement something like a Land Value Tax (at a very moderate 1.3‰ rate) and it is doing exactly what it should be doing.

The man crying for sympathy in the video is sitting on a plot of land worth €2.5M.

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/suedbaden/grundsteuer-erster-bescheid-einspruch-100.html

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