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> People talk about taxing granny out of her house, but they conveniently forget to mention that granny is keeping half a dozen people homeless by hoarding an u
by stogot 2y ago
> People talk about taxing granny out of her house, but they conveniently forget to mention that granny is keeping half a dozen people homeless by hoarding an underutilized property.
That’s a distasteful and predatory way to speak of someone who rightfully bought her property, possibly a widow, and just wants to live in peace versus having someone (business or gov) try to break the rules to take her property.
- epistasis 2y agoIt is far more distasteful and predatory to hide behind widows with a fundamentally unfair system. Whoever wants to take away the opportunity of others, let them pay. It's not hard. It's far more distasteful to ignore the needs of everyone to give a very minor convenience to somebody with a lot of wealth. Winston Churchill on this sort of old and wrong political argument about widows: https://savingcommunities.org/docs/churchill.winston/budgetresolutions.shtml#widow https://savingcommunities.org/docs/churchill.winston/budgetr...