Just last night, I was considering how we should tax land area devoted to cars the way costal beach property has been taxed in Florida.

In that state, their Proposition 13 moment occurred about 20 years ago. Owners had their beachfront property assessed at value least as much as a benchmark rate, set by resort and luxury condominium revenue.

Tax a parking lot at the market rate of commercial office space of the same area.

I've seen the future without paywalls and annoying javascript that hijacks your scroll behavior and it's amazing too.

I agree, but that's not the authors fault. NoScript actually makes NYT enjoyable to read, although this article you do have to scroll for a while.