More taxes, will not reduce the actual costs inherent in building something on a piece of land. The IRC is a building code that is incorporated by reference in

More taxes, will not reduce the actual costs inherent in building something on a piece of land. The IRC is a building code that is incorporated by reference into almost all building ordinances across the USA. https://archive.org/details/gov.law.icc.irc.2012 https://archive.org/details/gov.law.icc.irc.2012 Your foundation example is a strawman argument. I said "expensive and onerous licensing" - if there are 3 towns in close geographic proximity, should a tradesman have to pay $500 or more, to each of those 3, in order to be licensed in each town - and have to file more tax forms for each jurisdiction, even if he did not work in that town during the year? Who ultimately will pay the necessarily higher rates that will be charged? (Unfortunately the SF government website either gives me broken links or requires all kinds of online forms to fill out to determine what the cost is for contractors, so I can't easily give you an example.) The collusion and corruption of local pols is well known - it even reached the Supreme Court in the form of the Kelo case regarding eminent domain.