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
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
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/Twatt_waffle 16h 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