My 2005 Honda Accord gets this right (big, obvious buttons). Definitely not looking forward to finding a car whose UX doesn't suck when this one finally kicks the bucket.
This is only the case if you assume that nobody will change their behavior as a result of tax increases. If you're increasing the tax on structures, sure, there's no reason to expect that these costs won't be passed onto renters.
When you tax land however, something different happens: underdeveloped land becomes a bad investment. If the taxes are the same on a single family house and a small apartment building, you're losing out on a sizable amount of money by not building the apartments (and the folks hodling vacant land are really losing out). So essentially the idea is that land taxes encourage landowners to extract as much value as they can from the land (and punish those who don't). In the Bay Area this most likely means building more housing, increasing competition, and driving down rents.
Of course, this is assuming that housing is legal to build in the Bay area, so this is most likely unrealistic
I recently tried to buy a nice cream whipper (ISI Gourmet Whip) and figured i would buy from the manufacturer. There's seriously a $50 difference between the manufacturer price and the price on Amazon (in favor of Amazon). And the Amazon merchant is an authorized seller according to ISI's own website. I was truly baffled