Talk:ATCOR
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Wikilinks to ATCOR in other mainspace articles
[edit]Ideally, other mainspace articles should be edited to include wikilinks to this article. So far, Henry George theorem is the only mainspace article that includes a link to ATCOR, since I recently edited it. Adding links to ATCOR in relevant articles will help more people to find and read about ATCOR. Zero Contradictions (talk) 04:29, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
Misleading Examples Section
[edit]None of the examples discussed in this article come close to proving or demonstrating ATCOR. The Cleveland and NYC examples only show that LVT can trigger a construction boom and that land values increase during a construction boom. The San Francisco example proves even less--only that an LVT can be used as a city's revenue source. To demonstrate ATCOR, examples should ideally show land values increasing proportionally to cuts in income or corporate taxes.
Especially to make the strong claim at the beginning of the article that "ATCOR has been shown to work..." examples should be much more direct and rigorous. ~2025-31854-37 (talk) 21:07, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
The Cleveland and NYC examples only show that LVT can trigger a construction boom and that land values increase during a construction boom.
- In regard to Cleveland, the example does show that it was specifically the shifting of property taxation into specifically land-value taxation that resulted in the subsequent construction boom and therefore higher land-values. In regard to NYC, it demonstrates ATCOR as it shows that exempting improvements from taxation caused land-values to increase to the tax-base previously occupied by both improvement-, and land-value.
The San Francisco example proves even less--only that an LVT can be used as a city's revenue source.
- For San Francisco, it demonstrates ATCOR as it shows that even by the loss of other tax revenue from the earthquake and fires — the tax-revenue ultimately wasn't lost as the base of taxation shifted to solely land-value. Plupsnup (talk) 21:47, 10 November 2025 (UTC)