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You could also argue that every Spaniard moving from the countryside to the cities takes away houses from Spaniards born in the cities. Seems like an argument
by klipt 2y ago
You could also argue that every Spaniard moving from the countryside to the cities takes away houses from Spaniards born in the cities.
Seems like an argument for internal visas like China's household registration system to prevent excessive migration to the cities.
The countryside is mostly emptying out so no need to prevent people moving or buying there.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Seems like an argument for internal visas like China's household registration system to prevent excessive migration to the cities With the big difference being the Chinese citizen being denied Beijing hukou is still a Chinese citizen. Madrid should properly first concern itself with Spaniards' wellbeing. (This isn't an argument for or against this policy. Just clarifying why restricting non-EU home purchases is different from hukou.)
- Gvaskas 2y ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> over being called 'racist' by hateful strangers Straw man [1]. You're the only one in this thread levelling this charge. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
- Gvaskas 2y ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> What other motivation do they have for selling out their own family and people then? Not wanting to be the next Venezuela, for one. Reflexive protectionism is emotionally satisfying. It rarely delivers the promised relief. I could absolutely see such a tax e.g. taking out a small Spanish bank or two, or, at best, knocking out develoopers' financing such that new-home construction contracts. More likely: it becomes the only thing this government can work on as Spain gets mired in years of EU litigation. > It is trendy to participate in the destruction of your own descendants' homelands and future To the extent anyone is trend following, it's the populists making these sort of black-and-white claims. Again, you're the only one arguing against this imagined anti-racist commenter. Policy written to annoy an imagined foe is going to be predictably bad.
- iforgot22 2y agoYou're asking what the motivation for foreign investment is? Money. You're the only one mentioning racism.
- hellgas00 2y agoThis is a very accurate take, to consider Canada a country when their own prime minister refers to it as a post nation state (ie. Internal economic zone) and nothing more says it all. I would suggest the reason for the high suicide rates seen in the west is connected to this transition.
- Teever 2y agoThat comparison make sense in a world where the well being of a nation's citizens wasn't the priority of a nation. However we live in a world where that isn't the case so a nation deciding to restrict immigration or economic activity by foreigners for the benefit of the domestic population is an acceptable position to take -- provided it actually have that desired outcome.
- klipt 2y agoSpoiler: it won't help much. Liberalizing zoning and taxing land would do more to improve housing affordability.