Applying a land rent charge instead of paying the enormous array of taxes we do won’t come easily, because people erroneously believe their best interests are served by land prices continuing to increase.

We cling to destructive taxes on incomes and purchases as we complain regularly on radio [hello, 3AW!] about the level of our land ‘tax’–it’s actually a rent that can’t be passed off in prices as taxes are–without comprehending the societal distress that land prices and taxes are causing.

So, we compete with each other to own as much real estate as we can to ‘secure our future’ at a great cost to others.