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I Have Read Prop F

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Post by eru »

skuhn wrote: post #161
eru wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Property taxes are awesome: they do not distort economic activity (if done right), and they are hard to evade (since you can't hide your land).

OK. So then I take it we can agree that they shouldn't be artificially capped for some people because they got here first.

Definitely. Just make property taxes proportional to self-reported value of the property.

(With the catch that you have to sell to any would-be buyer who offers to pay the reported value. Just to keep people honest.)

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Post by fredkbloggs »

pbreit wrote: post #180
fredkbloggs wrote: post #128

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> Have you ever owned a residence? Yes. Do you even lift? This article is about SF, which is a city. Most of the busybodies who get up in arms about airbnb are residents of cities as well. Cities are densely populated places with large numbers of tenants per unit area, high residential turnover rates, and lots of tourists. "New strangers roaming around" is just a fact of life, regardless of whether a particular renta…

Lift? In dense areas, the solution is pretty easy and widespread: HOAs and landlords forbid it. No one in multi-unit dwellings wants a steady stream of strangers. It's the less dense neighborhoods where residents resent renters, much less short-term renters.

> Lift?

You asked if I've ever owned a residence. This sounded an awful lot to me like the classic trolly put-down "do you even lift?". See http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift. I don't care if you lift weights or if you've ever owned a residence; I just think your response to my comment was pointless and obnoxious. Try addressing the points in my argument instead of my (dubious?) credentials.

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