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Ive seen your Reaganite "the government and regulations are the enemy" comments since Ive been born, and it was crap then and it's crap now. In fact, dereg is h
by pierat 3y ago
Ive seen your Reaganite "the government and regulations are the enemy" comments since Ive been born, and it was crap then and it's crap now. In fact, dereg is how we've gotten to this point.
Housing has been turned from "a place to live" to a "place we can extract rents to make bank". And with the nature of landlording, the rents are priced to "mortgage+profit", so they get their mortgage paid on our backs and grow their personal wealth, and top it off with even more profit.
Policies that include a highly progressive tax after 2 homes should definitely be enacted, along with proper policing of flop houses (airbnb) in non-hotelier situations. Time to de-profit-ize housing.
- jpadkins 3y ago> Time to de-profit-ize housing. Can you cite an example of where this policy has worked out well? It seems counter intuitive because removing the profit incentive seems like it would remove investments + labor and therefore reduce housing construction.
- pierat 3y ago"Can you do the dirty job of recreating the housing market, and cite your sources in what amounts to a blog post?" Sure. Let me get right on that, after I get elected to be a Congresscritter.
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- jpadkins 3y agoCan you at least try it locally on a small scale first? Also, what do you mean by de-profit-ize housing? Do plumbers and tradesmen no longer get to profit from building homes? Surveyors? Architects? Electricians? Financiers? How do you get homes built if no one is allowed to profit from their trade?
- pierat 3y agoSince you have severe problems with "whataboutism" and scope creep to idiocy; my rates to answer your questions are $150/hr , payable as a donation to the EFF.
- jpadkins 3y agoI'll take you up on that offer, since it's pretty clear you don't have any answers and I love donating to the EFF. My terms are as follows: - you must write a clear, concise policy proposal - you must post the proposal on HN - A randomly selected (my selection) HN reader of that post will grade if your proposal is clear, persuasive and well cited. If you fail to pass, then I owe you nothing. You may keep retrying as long as you wish. - your total billable hours for this concise policy proposal should be no more than 4 hours. Are these terms acceptable?
- latency-guy2 3y agoYou should respect yourself more and demand a higher rate. It really depresses the rates I charge and I doubt I am as good as you are.