unpopular opinion:
I agree with them… kinda.
if you live in your house, that’s your home and you should not pay another rent based on its price.
using price of home for taxes causes every government official from mayor up to at best not really care if houses prices go up or actually fight policies that lower it.
I see a lot of people here that advocate for property taxes as a progressive tax but I don’t see it that way at all.
my take is government should tax empty houses and rents for landlords.
it is a mistake to follow Neo-liberal thinking of “you are the landlord of you own home” which is prevalent in financial world to make homes investment assets and count rent as GDP which make government be happy that number go up.
I hear here that “boomers” like high price of houses so they “deserve” punishment of high property taxes.
but if you live you own home and don’t make money of it, you don’t get any positive from house prices going up. most “news” about someone selling their house for a lot of money and going into smaller house is just them needing that money for healthcare and living, not investment.
and this mentality makes a self-fulfilling situation that prevent from actual affordability of houses.
fight for high taxes on empty houses and rents. don’t make people living in their own homes renters of government.
unpopular opinion:
I agree with them… kinda.
if you live in your house, that’s your home and you should not pay another rent based on its price.
using price of home for taxes causes every government official from mayor up to at best not really care if houses prices go up or actually fight policies that lower it.
I see a lot of people here that advocate for property taxes as a progressive tax but I don’t see it that way at all.
my take is government should tax empty houses and rents for landlords.
it is a mistake to follow Neo-liberal thinking of “you are the landlord of you own home” which is prevalent in financial world to make homes investment assets and count rent as GDP which make government be happy that number go up.
I hear here that “boomers” like high price of houses so they “deserve” punishment of high property taxes.
but if you live you own home and don’t make money of it, you don’t get any positive from house prices going up. most “news” about someone selling their house for a lot of money and going into smaller house is just them needing that money for healthcare and living, not investment.
and this mentality makes a self-fulfilling situation that prevent from actual affordability of houses.
fight for high taxes on empty houses and rents. don’t make people living in their own homes renters of government.