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A "vacant storefront tax" would easily be circumvented by a legal entity with a vending machine business or the "owner" themselves putting one of their "offices
by bflesch 10mo ago
A "vacant storefront tax" would easily be circumvented by a legal entity with a vending machine business or the "owner" themselves putting one of their "offices" there (a table).
- ryandrake 10mo agoAny realistic vacant land tax with teeth would obviously need to define vacancy such that silly tricks like this wouldn't work.
- AnimalMuppet 10mo agoAnd in response, owners would do something slightly less silly - just enough to technically fall within the rules, and so not be subject to the tax.
- ryandrake 10mo agoThen fix those technicalities, too. People act as though laws are etched permanently into clay tablets. Lawmakers should keep iterating until the bugs are worked out and the letter of the law more closely approaches the spirit of the law. We shouldn't just always default to doing nothing because someone, somewhere is going to try to rules-lawyer their way out of it.
- bflesch 10mo agoThat's called "intervention spiral" where you need to put even more regulations on top of existing regulations because market forces are always leaking through. They should fix the underlying reason which is too restrictive zoning.
- rwmj 10mo agoNo no no .. snails! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v1rjlekpeo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v1rjlekpeo