Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy

Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by Veen on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:21PM (#22678566)

> Ban rent for COVID-19-affected businesses

Landlords have mortgages and a host of other associated costs. If this were made a policy in the UK, you'd have a huge number of small-time buy-to-let landlords going bankrupt and losing their nest-egg to the bank.

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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by pornel on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:35PM (#22679277)

It's a get-rich-quick scheme that has inflated house prices. These landlords aren't providing any value — they're literally rent-seeking.

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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by 6510 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:18PM (#22680550)

Someone has to pull the short straw.

If I put a plastic egg in your nest, does that by natural law make me the owner of your eggs?

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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by dang on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:32PM (#22679256)

Can you please not post ideological flamewar comments to HN? They lead to ideological flamewars, which are predictable (therefore boring, therefore off-topic) and also nasty (therefore destructive, therefore against the site rules).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by snoopsbooks on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:03PM (#22678980)

Agree. Bankrupt everyone who takes a risk. That will teach them all a lesson.

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