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Re:It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives ... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday August 16, 2024 @07:45PM (#41271342)
Deploy the army Corp of engineers, tie to a massive jobs program with expedited eminent domain. Fund it by closing loopholes on wealthy tax cheats, tax unrealized gains for billionaires, tax loans against stocks, tax private jet travel 100%. And on and on.

These are all solvable problems but no one has the will because the people empowered are too fucking comfortable watching the planet get destroyed while people die deaths of exposure and despair by the millions.

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Re:It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives ... by HDThoreaun on Friday August 16, 2024 @08:35PM (#41271527)
When you say "just bring in the army corps of engineers" everyone hears "we're not going to solve the problem" because the odds of that happening are extremely low compared to the odds of everyone just putting up with things being a little bit worse. We need to rebuild faith in our government in order to undertake projects that cause change.
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