<story><title>Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)</title><url>https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fighterpilot</author><text>Land taxes are one of the few taxes that don&amp;#x27;t disincentive productive activity.&lt;p&gt;Are there any others like it (aside from externality taxes)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Anything that&amp;#x27;s a monopoly good whose supply is fixed &amp;amp; unchangeable.  Things like the electromagnetic spectrum, satellite orbitals, fisheries, carbon emissions, rights-of-way, drilling rights, etc.  Note that there&amp;#x27;s a bit of a continuum between &amp;quot;natural resource&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;externality&amp;quot; - on one hand you have something like land, on the other carbon emissions, but those are just two sides of the same concept.&lt;p&gt;If we moved to a system where data about a person was owned by the person rather than the corporate entity that collected the data, then usage of that data is another good candidate for taxation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)</title><url>https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fighterpilot</author><text>Land taxes are one of the few taxes that don&amp;#x27;t disincentive productive activity.&lt;p&gt;Are there any others like it (aside from externality taxes)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Theoretically, any good with a perfectly inelastic supply.</text></comment>