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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by ttul on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:52AM (#22075032)
An alarm bell goes off any time someone suggests lowering PROPERTY taxes... ugh. Property taxes should be way higher in most parts of the world to disincentivized speculation.
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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by JoeAltmaier on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:54AM (#22075051)
Yeah my local town removed property tax for new development. In fact, they instituted a TIF (tax incentive fund?) which means the developer gets the property taxes free and clear for new buildings. The city is going broke, but the council is dominated by developer-sponsored shills so its hard to fix.
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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by papreclip on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#22078365)
lower the taxes for primary residence only, then
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