Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy

Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by hotpotamus on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:44PM (#35880145)

I like to think of property tax as a wealth tax for the middle class. My understanding is that the per capita taxes of those states aren't really much different from others, but they're structured more regressively.

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:40AM (#35886468)

The opposite is true.

First, there is no middle, it would be more useful to describe socioeconomic classes of people by decile, or even quintile.

But the top 10% surely owns more real estate than the bottom 90%, so low property tax is very regressive since it allows them to hoard real estate, while the rest of the population pays to secure it via funding the police/legal system.

Second, the lower socioeconomic classes are going to spend all of their money on rent, and goods and services, like consumables and healthcare and food and tolls. So sales tax and usage based taxes for things necessary to live are the most regressive.

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