Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h...
by eeZah7Ux on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:02PM
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Despite the downvotes, this type of progressive tax exists in many countries where people pay less taxes on the first house they buy.
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Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h...
by noarchy on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:22PM
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Part of the downvotes may have been due to this inclusion:
>Taxes gathered this way should found basic income.
...which is going to turn off some people, while others will consider it an unnecessary political tangent.
Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h...
by scotty79 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:49PM
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That's just an idea. I just think it should not be part of normal government budget because it could increase goverment spending for usual stuff and when that's increased it hardly ever goes down.
Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h...
by noarchy on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:49PM
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Why would the universal income spending be any different?
Re:30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s h...
by scotty79 on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:45AM
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It might be different because there's no BI yet. BI is simple so the rules can be written to be simple too. Like setting up fund and spending on basic income not a fixed amount but last years fund income instead so the fund never gives away more than it earns.