Re:New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
by crispinb on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:21PM
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> someone born in New Zealand
NZ is a country of immigration, and gives full rights to all citizens. This has nothing to do with where anyone is born.
> What gives .. any more rights than anyone else
Property rights are laws. They can be made, altered, and revoked. What gives NZ citizens the right to buy existing houses will be NZ laws, promulgated by a democratically elected parliament.
> This myopic nationalist mindset is ridiculous
There's a perfectly reasonable non-nationalist approach to this kind of law change, based on trying to keep housing available for people who can't bid against the global rich. I'm sure plenty of NZ progressives would love to protect the world's poor from the depredations of the 1%. But given the NZ parliament's limited jurisdiction (viz., to NZ), this seems like a reasonable start.
NZ is a country of immigration, and gives full rights to all citizens. This has nothing to do with where anyone is born.
> What gives .. any more rights than anyone else
Property rights are laws. They can be made, altered, and revoked. What gives NZ citizens the right to buy existing houses will be NZ laws, promulgated by a democratically elected parliament.
> This myopic nationalist mindset is ridiculous
There's a perfectly reasonable non-nationalist approach to this kind of law change, based on trying to keep housing available for people who can't bid against the global rich. I'm sure plenty of NZ progressives would love to protect the world's poor from the depredations of the 1%. But given the NZ parliament's limited jurisdiction (viz., to NZ), this seems like a reasonable start.