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>Would you support a bill forcing owners of large houses to set aside some of their space for the homeless? I support the idea of taxing the rich to support th
by minikites 8y ago
>Would you support a bill forcing owners of large houses to set aside some of their space for the homeless?
I support the idea of taxing the rich to support the less fortunate so yes, I agree with the general idea behind your bizarrely worded scenario.
- quotemstr 8y agoWe already tax corporations. Taxation isn't surrending ownership control. It's very different, just like a property tax that funds a homeless shelter is very different from forcing someone to live with a squatter.
- minikites 8y ago"Taxation is theft" is a very common refrain because the government is taking "your property" in the form of currency.
- paganel 8y agoSlightly related, but when communists came to power in my Eastern-European country immediately after WW2 they nationalized most of the urban “big” houses and apartment-blocks. Most of the owners of those properties had to move out completely, but some of them still had the “opportunity” to still live inside a room of their now former property and the rest of the rooms were given as rentals to workers who had come mostly from the country-side. This situation lasted for 10-15 years until the regime built enough new apartment-blocks into which it moved those workers and their families.