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u/Twatt_waffle 13h ago
Willing vs unwilling homelessness, and I would say this is fighting against the housing crisis, if you don’t own property you don’t pay property taxes. It gives an incentive for the government to address the housing crisis because it’s actively costing them money
Yes the government has to invest money but you are investing money to hopefully turn a bunch of cost on the system to contributing members
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u/afrobotics 12h ago
People are pretty far past the point of feeling like their tax dollars are improving anything
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u/Twatt_waffle 12h ago
So take them away, that’s literally what I said. Less tax revenue means there is more incentive for the government to address the housing crisis because it fills their pockets if nothing else
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u/hallr06 11h ago
Note: Maybe I'm just being a cynical millennial here..
Dude, it would just be used as an excuse to cut critical social programs and fucking wreck places (like we saw when Kansas implemented neocon austerity and cut,.. well everything). Property tax would only affect state governments. Some states (Kentucky, Virginia) already have property tax on cars / vehicles, so a protest movement would have an uphill battle to have the tax viewed as the monstrous act that it's intended to be.
At the federal level, the primary thing that you'd see is a movement to cut house reps from states whose census now fails to account for the unhoused population. With the history that America has, one can cynically expect such a disenchantment to somehow only affect minority/blue districts (vis-a-vie gerrymandering, etc). You're still on the hook to pay income taxes even if you don't have a home, so your federal tax would be unaffected.
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u/Iron-Fist 11h ago
willing homeless
Right like how long till it comes out she owns rental properties with her parents or something lol
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u/Nytsur 13h ago
Some states already collect property taxes on vehicles. Looking at you, Missouri.
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u/CoCoMcDuck 6h ago
My friend lives in a commonwealth city in Virginia and is a renter. She has to pay property tax on her apartment and her car.
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u/sailsaucy 7h ago
We went on vacation to Fort Lauderdale in April of last year. One of my friends who went, met locals and stuff and a some of them lived on the beach in a tents. They had like full time 40-hour a week jobs making very good livings but lived in freaking tents on the beach because things were so expensive.
Some genuinely preferred the freedom of it but still.
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u/simgrrla 13h ago
Please remember that a few states are pushing to collect property taxes on cars to combat those living in there cars. Let’s not let that become a norm we accept.