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A third option to building more housing or shedding local jobs is to create fewer new jobs. For example, by taxing tech companies until they slow their growth.
by brighteyes 11y ago
A third option to building more housing or shedding local jobs is to create fewer new jobs. For example, by taxing tech companies until they slow their growth.
- nine_k 11y agoImagine that Facebook or Google announces that the rent is too damn high, it impedes growth, and they are moving to a place with lower taxes and some housing available to employees, like Seattle, WA or Austin, TX or maybe Boulder, CO. And the City councils of Mountain View or Menlo Park or whatever are like: good riddance, we don't need you, your buses and your tax dollars!