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High inflation caused in large part by many years of increasing deficit spending does not make me think 'federalize zoning'. Land and building is local. People
by landemva 5y ago
High inflation caused in large part by many years of increasing deficit spending does not make me think 'federalize zoning'. Land and building is local. People can be involved in local politics where they have some influence. One size does not fit all.
Removing house finance interest tax deduction would help reduce speculation and reduce prices.
- arcticbull 5y agoIm sure it doesn't make you think that - but the deficit spending is a red herring, and the local zoning causing housing to go up exponentially is the real issue here. One of many. Deficit spending is an investment, you're looking at the liabilities without looking at the assets purchased. That's half the puzzle.
- landemva 5y ago$2.3T flushed in Afghanistan was not a productive investment. Government spending is often malinvestment. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar '... 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. ' Western USA has large land tracts owned by federal forest service and BLM. Maybe you could advocate for feds changing their zoning to allow house building?
- arcticbull 5y agoNot all investment is good, but finding a few bad investments doesn't make all investments bad, obviously. I already advocate for zoning reform at all levels including federalizing the zoning rules to preclude obstinate city councils from banning the desperately needed development within towns. Large tracts of forest are kind of useless if your job is in a city and the city council won't let you build a house to live near it lol. "If you want houses so bad why don't you build them in a forest well away from anything" is among the worst arguments I've ever heard.