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Originally Posted by 1487
but if they arent ready to break ground having such a tax wouldn't change anything here. If they were a parking operation I would be a little more concerned because it would mean their long term goal would be to operate a parking lot here. This is less than ideal, but probably inevitable until they close out some of their active projects and determine what will get built here.
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A priest once went to visit the noted bank robber Willie Sutton, during one of his many prison stints.
"Why do you rob banks?" he asked him.
"Because that's where the money is," Willie Sutton said back.
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What happened here is a breakdown of communication. The question the priest was asking was: "Why do you rob banks [at all]?"; the question Willie Sutton answered was "Why do you rob banks [as opposed to museums, toy stores, burger joints, houses, etc]?" The question was asked in one explanatory space; it was answered in a completely different one.
So, let's try this again, shall we? Is the explanatory space "Why should we have a land value tax on this particular parcel?" -- the question you answered, which now that I pointed this out, makes you seem more than a little silly for thinking I asked it, or "Why should we have a land value tax at all?"?