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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by deepsun on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:04AM (#46538532)
Land Value Tax is one way, a very old idea.

Germany practices basically rent control, so that 60%+ of population rent and consider it stable. That's another way.

Maybe there are more, I didn't think hard. The basic idea is to prevent formation of an "aristocracy" that holds some limited but necessary (not luxury) resource. Pretty much every revolution happened because of that.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by iugtmkbdfil834 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:41PM (#46543962)
But wouldn't this suggest that the solution is really just stopping ( and then keeping ) things from being too excessive?
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