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Corporate PROPERTY tax you say......
You're totally right to be sarcastic but I expect it is an unpopular opinion of the general public >

That's not what this post is saying. He's saying that people shouldn't be getting richer by squeezing the lower classes through monopolizing necessity. If you want to make money, you should be running a business that produces products or services not buying up assets to monopolize on scarcity while no creating any new value to society. >

Winston Churchill: "The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city … watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more convenient. .. and all the while sits and does nothing. Roads are made … services are improved … water is brought from reservoirs one hundred miles off in the mountains and -all the while the landlord sits still … To not one of these improvements does the landlord monopolist contribute and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced … At last the land becomes ripe for sale – that means the price is too tempting to be resisted any longer … In fact you may say that the unearned increment … is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion not to the service, but to the disservice done." >

Property tax? >

An individual's property tax is extremely small in the overall cost of public utility projects. My property taxes are roughly $3500/yr and a public road could cost several hundred thousand to over $1M to build. My city just rebuilt the courthouse and city square for something like $40M. In a city of 16k our individual contributions to that project through property tax are minimal. >

16,000*3,500 = 54 million huh funny how that works >

Population of 16000, not 16000 individual homeowners paying property taxes. The average household size in my city is 2.42, so, assuming each of those households are paying property taxes at $3500 each, the city revenue from household property taxes is just over $23 million. The city's 2022 budget was $51 million. The remaining revenue comes from sales tax, corporate property taxes, etc.