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It doesn't matter, any residential property.
If I build a 40-unit apartment building (provides housing for 36 families on average), am I taxed as if that’s 40 residential properties? Do we want to use tax policy to punish this construction?
Tax the purchase not the construction.
Giving housing to the homeless means we change the homeless into neighbours. And who the hell wants a poor person as a neighbour.
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Follow-up: All these replies missed my point. I’m not saying tech is blameless, rather that the press constantly criticizes tech for both doing too much and doing nothing and not fixing society. I would argue that this is toxic and ignores the agency of literally all other professions/people. Further, to ignore the housing/etc lobbying by basically everyone else outside of tech and make it seem like SV giants control…
> rather that the press constantly criticizes tech Clearly we're consuming different types of media, because on my estimation tech gets let off fairly light relative to the damage we cause. As practitioners, we're not entitled to get angry about being criticised for the damage we cause at least until we've stopped it.
> I’m the kind of person who contributes to society by starting companies that leverage technology to build smart tea kettles that brew themselves while you sleep at night. I’m a fucking innovator. Is there a reason that the press is always making scapegoats out of tech nerds? The vast majority of people are not employed in tech, and are part of the same society and have very similar self interests. Truly tired of ev…
Follow-up: All these replies missed my point. I’m not saying tech is blameless, rather that the press constantly criticizes tech for both doing too much and doing nothing and not fixing society. I would argue that this is toxic and ignores the agency of literally all other professions/people. Further, to ignore the housing/etc lobbying by basically everyone else outside of tech and make it seem like SV giants control…
And nobody wants to see their real estate property decline in value…
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If I build a 40-unit apartment building (provides housing for 36 families on average), am I taxed as if that’s 40 residential properties? Do we want to use tax policy to punish this construction?
No punish people buying multiple properties as "investments". Tax the purchase not the construction.
If you restrict or punish the purchase of housing via tax policy, you simultaneously restrict the sale of it by original constructors, which serves as an impediment to that original construction.
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There are no leftists in the US. The people you are refering to a liberals, who are defacto identical to conservatives
Dean Preston is a self-described socialist. A socialist is not a conservative.
Giving housing to the homeless means we change the homeless into neighbours. And who the hell wants a poor person as a neighbour.
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You realize that's a slur, right?
Really, you wanna police speech on HN? What priggishness. smh As long as the gypsies in Slovakia call themselves thus, you have no moral leg to stand on.