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Balrog0 posted...

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Dishonest. If you have an income under 10k a year, no fucking duh you're going to have a larger housing burden than someone making more money. You should be arguing for a larger mortgage deduction if you want that to change. Or we can target the root causes of poverty, which are violence, unstable families, drugs, stupid decisions with money, etc.


Balrog0 posted...

No, we haven't.

Do you think Milton Friedman would support subsidizing the wealthy but not the poor? I think you haven't read him.

Dishonest. You're repeatedly calling tax deductions subsidies, and we both know that you know that you're doing this on purpose. You're not a stupid person. You're just being a fucking politician right now, like Elizabeth Warren. Tax deductions are not subsidies, and they're definitely not subsidies for the wealthy.


Balrog0 posted...

I've actually studied this topic academically and professionally, broheim. You're only focusing on one end of the solutions, and you honestly have no idea what you're talking about next.

You didn't even address the point. No one cares what you've studied. You're arguing for eliminating tax deductions, and also at the same time you're arguing for increasing spending on the poor to help the poor. What the fuck? Getting rid of the tax deductions makes it harder for the lower and income tax people to move up. Darkman can afford more property tax, you cannot. All you're doing is making the privileged more privileged, under some pretense of wanting to help the poor.

Balrog0 posted...

I don't understand why my genuinely held opinion that is backed up by facts makes you so angry. There's no connection between minimum lot sizes and safety. Parking requirements actually subsidize car ownership and increase development costs which are then passed onto the consumer. I don't think the government should be in the business of regulating "intrinsic beauty," do you? Maybe you need Friedman in your life?

Parking requirements subsidize car ownership? Laughing my fucking ass off right now.

Don't want to pay for development costs of a parking space? Don't buy a home that has a parking space. Or live exclusively in cities. Don't want to live in an area where larger lot sizes means less traffic? Go live in a city. Don't want to live in an area where there's more open space and thus more intrinsic beauty? Live in a congested city.

Even if a government didn't mandate minimum lot sizes, people would gravitate towards them. And note that the residents of a community or a neighborhood have the right to decide rules like that. I don't really like home owner associations but they have a right to decide minimum lot size requirements.