So long as you have blood, ticks will try to bite you. Increasing the taxes would be a good way to increase tax revenue, and we should do it, and corporate real estate investors will fight it like hell, but there isn’t any reason to think it will discourage predatory behaviors.
If they can make more money selling and lending on the property, you get the 2008 bubble all over again.
Capitalists are going to capitalize. Regulation is the only weapon against abuse. Taxes are a good start, but it won’t be enough.
Defense in depth. One’s a more difficult target and it’d be foolish to abandon a near term improvement because we want a better option 10 years down the road. Do both.
Yeah, you’re not going to tax parasites off the host. We need regulations limiting corporate ownership of residential property.
So long as the property is desirable to corporate owners, they will be fighting to get around those regulations.
By increasing the tax rate substantially on non-occupant owners, we make residential property far less lucrative for corporate owners.
When they can make more money selling and lending on the property than they can make renting it, mission accomplished.
So long as you have blood, ticks will try to bite you. Increasing the taxes would be a good way to increase tax revenue, and we should do it, and corporate real estate investors will fight it like hell, but there isn’t any reason to think it will discourage predatory behaviors.
If they can make more money selling and lending on the property, you get the 2008 bubble all over again.
Capitalists are going to capitalize. Regulation is the only weapon against abuse. Taxes are a good start, but it won’t be enough.
Defense in depth. One’s a more difficult target and it’d be foolish to abandon a near term improvement because we want a better option 10 years down the road. Do both.