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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by kareemm on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:56AM (#15830648)
That's unfortunate, but I'm not sure where it's written that investments must always go up.
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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by einarvollset on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:05AM (#15830681)
No, and nowhere is it written that you get to decide when existing rules should be changed.
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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by kareemm on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:32AM (#15830761)
Our democratically elected legislators make and change the rules. It's not clear to me why they should preserve the value of an asset for a few people just because the asset might go down. Especially if there's a high cost to people who don't own similar assets.

Can you help me understand why that's a good idea?

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by WillPostForFood on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:56AM (#15831028)
Democratically elected legislators can also choose not to make new or change existing rules. If you want to leave it to democracy, that's why we have what we do now.
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