The Berlin Senate froze rents for roughly 1.5 million apartments in February 2020, capping them at 2019 levels and threatening landlords with fines up to 500,000 euros for charging more. Politicians sold this as relief for working Berliners getting priced out of their  --- ## Comments > **TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/TaxLandNotMan/status/2102029375281500476) > > What prevents fair housing prices is obfuscation of "the land issue". Land, unlike capital, is a daily biological necessity because the human body requires sleep. So, until the tax on land is high enough to prevent holding it as a store of value, systemic poverty will persist. > > > **augmented.marshall @marshallpittman** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2102041482823704692) > > > > Why tax at all? Taxes produce perverse incentives uncorrelated to human behavior. Government spends tax revenues in efficiently, unlike landowners. > > > > > **TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/TaxLandNotMan/status/2102052082077389277) > > > > > > If land isn't taxed high enough to prevent investors from owning it as a store of value, everyone else will be rent slaves. Also, they'll be tax slaves since government is a necessary function of society. > > > > > > Treating land, everyone's daily source of life, like capital is illogical. > > > > > > > **augmented.marshall @marshallpittman** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2102100541698375878) > > > > > > > > Taxing land means only the taxing government owns the land. > > > > > > > > You don’t pay your taxes since you are retired (defined as no longer producing income, not as reaching a certain age), then government assesses a tax based on a mythical sale price, even though you have not sold, and > > > > > > > > > **TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/TaxLandNotMan/status/2102123018910626034) > > > > > > > > > > If land is the only thing taxed, land ownership will become thoroughly decentralized. Land is currently being monopolized because it's profitable to own as a store of value. When it isn't, we will all have equal access. Also, with no other taxes, we'll have free association. > > > > > > > > > > > **augmented.marshall @marshallpittman** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2102132394203521078) > > > > > > > > > > > > You are addressing a specific problem with a general solution that has innumerable negative consequences for people who are not part of the specific problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > **TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan** · [2026-09-21](https://x.com/TaxLandNotMan/status/2102175634889880011) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No. The problem being addressed is the relationship between nature and society (overall economic justice). We can't have individual freedom without equal economic opportunity (land access). All consequences will be good for society and ecosystem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Challenge: find the downside. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **augmented.marshall @marshallpittman** · [2026-09-22](https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2102375161798287410) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is no such thing as "economic justice." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You are correcting a system by punishing people who never participated in the activity. All kinds of "blank" justice ideas do this. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Equal land access is already possible. The reason people do not own land is that they limit where > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan** · [2026-09-22](https://x.com/TaxLandNotMan/status/2102447485520089486) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The ability to pay an investor for land is not equal access. Clearly, the person holding the land for ransom has greater access. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Economic justice is the natural state of man. Nature is fair. Holding nature for ransom and taxing people for working are unfair. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **augmented.marshall @marshallpittman** · [2026-09-23](https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2102563300886384988) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Anything that is taxed is held for ransom by the taxing body.