Something like land value tax perhaps in the Georgist tradition.

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In New York, Scott Baker, a novelist and president of Georgist organization Common Ground, began a petition two years ago for New York state to adopt a land value tax.

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"When you've tried everything, try Henry George, " says Joshua Vincent, a historian and statistician who runs a Georgist group called the Center for the Study of Economics in the house where Henry George was born in Philadelphia.

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