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how their money ought to be spent for their own good! It's not for their own good. It's for the greater good. I fear for the world if everybody starts modeli
by seiji 13y ago
how their money ought to be spent for their own good!
It's not for their own good. It's for the greater good.
I fear for the world if everybody starts modeling their world view based on SF-visionary "me me me only me me me no taxes ever me me me" attitudes espoused around here.
As Retric mentioned, all of this airbnb money transfer is completely cheating local taxes. You pay airbnb fee tax instead of local travel taxes, thereby turning airbnb into some sort of defacto municipal overlay around the entire world.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoIt's not so hard to regulate. You can have AirBNB handing over their list of renters to the country's authorities in order to tax the renters. But you should be adamant that you're going to tax them not close them, otherwise it won't work.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoIn the absence of externalities, their own good is the greater good. AirBnB's neighbors are the only ones I know of with a decent case for that (and in multi-tenant buildings, at least, there are surely some provisions for resolving such conflicts already...)