Not taxing housing is a tried and true way to freeze any public funding for expenditures other than police and military. They’re literally trying to get rid of things as basic as public education.
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Business Insider
Inside what? Their ass?
Amazingly, Business Insider still isn’t even close to being the worst.
The Bezos newspaper is the worst one right? Washingon Post is it?
They are all about the same. NYT and WaPo are the ‘papers of record’ for the USA though.
As far as ‘mainstream’ papers, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, etc are maybe they worst.
Mao solved this decades ago
I’m working my way through the ‘Peoples History of Ideas’ podcast now. In the 1920s still. Some landlords still getting fucked up but I haven’t go to the really good parts yet.
Replace the property tax with a progressive tax on rental income and you would actually be moving towards a real solution. Property titles should also only be in the name of a real person, not fictitious corporate entities to prevent the rich from dodging this tax.
They said this about gas prices in my country. The government finally cut taxes after years of pressure. Then the prices went even higher.
No, the simple fix is forcibly occupying all deliberately empty real estate
…Im trying to understand how homeowners who doesnt have to pay property tax anymore makes it easier?
It just sounds like a way for those who paid off their mortgage to just check out entirely from society or at least more in part than usual.
Property taxes can sometimes be a real burden to an elderly person on a fixed income or something, but I know this bozo doesn’t care about that.
The issue, yes… Is that property taxes are likely too high far some but also, the biggest problems there is the fixed income. And the person making this complaint isnt concerned about the fixed income retired.
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This makes absolutely 0 difference if most people can’t even make enough to even get their foot in the door of a house.
Odd way to to say homelessness boom.