Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage

Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by marcusverus on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:56PM (#39696607)

So the suburbs are net recipients of infrastructure taxes, which is a bad thing. Got it. Shall we also apply this to other government services? It would be kind of shameless to complain about suburbanites being the net-beneficiaries of one service, while expecting them to be net-contributors to literally every other government service in existence, right?

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by someguydave on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:05PM (#39696721)

It would be amusing if the end result of harassing net-productive taxpayers (suburbanites) is that they exit even further into wholly private areas where the government provides almost no services and nearly all the "local tax" is spent on upkeep of only the private community.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by oblio on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @06:07PM (#39698173)

City dwellers are taxed more in terms of density of infrastructure. Lots of people using less infrastructure and paying more taxes in aggregate.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by zrn900 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:29PM (#39699695)

Wasting housing and space makes being the net recipient of infrastructure taxes a net negative to entire society, an extravaganza.

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