If Montana law taxes scenery, why not data?
Remember the “scenery tax”? We used to joke that it was the tax we paid in the form of low incomes for living in a place as remote and beautiful as Montana.
Well, now we are paying higher property taxes because our scenery has become a marketable commodity for the people who have been buying up our state. Scenery is a real factor in the increase in home values and property taxes. But how do you value something like location?
The market is a pretty good way to do that. Buyers value scenery and are willing to bid up the price of a parcel of land to get some of it.
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