Wow so comprehensive and good. It is quite good at being non political - as it appeals to both parties and especially the youth. However, Dialect I am, What came to my mind is politics = G (Georgist ticket) that would follow these principles on reforming tax code. Thanks again for your real work - not just us commentators armchair quarterbacks
For someone on the ground like me it would be amazing to have basically your Spokane materials customized to my town. I suspect this is possible with AI. Then my main job is to find right local audiences.
You can certainly use AI to speed up putting a presentation together, but you still have to dig up most of the facts yourself, which the computers haven't rendered completely redundant, at least not yet. But our ultimate goal is very much to commoditize the process of churning out these reports as quickly as possible at a high level of quality, and a lot of our work next year will focus on that.
Formats vary widely from state to state, but the most common formats you'll find are ESRI shapefiles, GPKG, CSV, and Excel, which are pretty easy to work with.
What about the legal analysis? It seems like at least the state-level analysis could be reused, and perhaps the city or county level could be pulled and analyzed by an LLM at least initially. And you could have a centralized dataset of “confirmed” legal analysis from an actual lawyer, if necessary.
Is the difficulty in pulling the relevant laws and regulations in the first place?
You're definitely thinking along the right lines. Legal stuff is the easiest to look up, it's mostly just text, and just about everywhere it just be freely available and in plain text format. There's just a lot of it and it requires effort to process, though as you say LLM's can help with that. Mostly we just need to get organized and split up this work, start collecting it, and keep the process regularly updated. Wanna help?
> Given this local focus, we recommend that your first Land Value Return pitch should be framed as a voluntary opt-in for local jurisdictions, and calibrated to be revenue-neutral. This immediately takes two common attacks off the table—that the new reform will be “forced” on an entire populace who didn’t ask for it, or that it is a money-grab.
And a revenue-neutral shift also does NOT cause property values to decrease (Yang, 2018; Yang & Hawley, 2022), so we have a ready answer for the loud minority of people who have been conditioned to think housing should be guaranteed upside investments and concerned about potential underwater mortgages.
> Yang, Z. (2018). “Differential effects of land value taxation.” Journal of Housing Economics, 39: 33-39.
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> Yang, Z., & Hawley, Z. B. (2022).” Effects of Split-Rate Taxation on Tax Base.” Public Finance Review, 50(6): 651-679.
Wow so comprehensive and good. It is quite good at being non political - as it appeals to both parties and especially the youth. However, Dialect I am, What came to my mind is politics = G (Georgist ticket) that would follow these principles on reforming tax code. Thanks again for your real work - not just us commentators armchair quarterbacks
For someone on the ground like me it would be amazing to have basically your Spokane materials customized to my town. I suspect this is possible with AI. Then my main job is to find right local audiences.
Have y'all tried anything like that?
You can certainly use AI to speed up putting a presentation together, but you still have to dig up most of the facts yourself, which the computers haven't rendered completely redundant, at least not yet. But our ultimate goal is very much to commoditize the process of churning out these reports as quickly as possible at a high level of quality, and a lot of our work next year will focus on that.
What town are you in?
What systems or formats are most of these records in? Maybe I missed it from above.
I'm in South Orange NJ
Formats vary widely from state to state, but the most common formats you'll find are ESRI shapefiles, GPKG, CSV, and Excel, which are pretty easy to work with.
What about the legal analysis? It seems like at least the state-level analysis could be reused, and perhaps the city or county level could be pulled and analyzed by an LLM at least initially. And you could have a centralized dataset of “confirmed” legal analysis from an actual lawyer, if necessary.
Is the difficulty in pulling the relevant laws and regulations in the first place?
You're definitely thinking along the right lines. Legal stuff is the easiest to look up, it's mostly just text, and just about everywhere it just be freely available and in plain text format. There's just a lot of it and it requires effort to process, though as you say LLM's can help with that. Mostly we just need to get organized and split up this work, start collecting it, and keep the process regularly updated. Wanna help?
Yes! I sent you a DM.
> Given this local focus, we recommend that your first Land Value Return pitch should be framed as a voluntary opt-in for local jurisdictions, and calibrated to be revenue-neutral. This immediately takes two common attacks off the table—that the new reform will be “forced” on an entire populace who didn’t ask for it, or that it is a money-grab.
And a revenue-neutral shift also does NOT cause property values to decrease (Yang, 2018; Yang & Hawley, 2022), so we have a ready answer for the loud minority of people who have been conditioned to think housing should be guaranteed upside investments and concerned about potential underwater mortgages.
> Yang, Z. (2018). “Differential effects of land value taxation.” Journal of Housing Economics, 39: 33-39.
>
> Yang, Z., & Hawley, Z. B. (2022).” Effects of Split-Rate Taxation on Tax Base.” Public Finance Review, 50(6): 651-679.