The KLN: "You will never be able to really own land if you have to pay 'rent' for it."
The 'rent' i.e. tax you would have to pay is merely your contribution towards the cost of stuff (defence, police, roads, education, NHS etc) that increases/maintains the use value of that location. The same as paying for repairs, utilities, service charges on a flat, home and contents insurance etc.
(For sure, you need the government to provide the basics AND the private sector economy to do everything else, one without the other is no good without the other and location values would be very low, but hey.)
Clearly, there are large swathes of the UK where the rental value is so low that it's not worth collecting the tax, i.e. most farmland and housing in the cheapest areas (the bottom ten per cent).
So if you are mad keen to 'own' land and not pay any 'rent', then just buy some farmland and pitch a caravan on it, or buy a house in a run down area with low employment rates. You don't get much in exchange, so you pay little or nothing.
If you want something nicer, then you have to pay for it, the future tax bill comes off the price anyway, so what's the difference.
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