Bustedknuckles

It's true that some landlords would jack up rent rather than sell - especially as some people are stuck renting in a tighter market. Ideally you could separate corporate landlords from onesie-twosie landlords? A big issue is that landlords and banks are happy to artificially tighten the market with vacant housing. I think Vancouver Canada had a law that levied taxes on unoccupied housing - I should look into how that went

I think that was in the original text but was removed before passage because Texas has already passed their gerrymander

I've seen the idea floated that we jack up property taxes, exempting owner-occupied homes. I don't think it's that bad for seniors to downsize and increase housing liquidity and let people who want to get more out of local communities for their tax burden. We're facing a lot of resistance to taxes and our schools are getting disrupted by budget shortfalls. I'm happy to pay more because I have kids who use the parks, sidewalks, schools, library, etc. a lot of seniors use less and don't want to pay more. So maybe low-but-nonzero property tax for owner-occupied, and high tax for landlords like me!

As other two have said. The carrying costs for banks is just too low to incentivize liquidity in housing supply. Put them on the market and watch home prices and rent fall

The fuck?

I think the offer was fine, especially since it was rejected. Shows goodwill negotiation that independents say they like, doesn't cost anything

I'll bet it's the opposite. They're shifting the cancellations/ATC stress to commercial flights while private flights are unaffected

That effort is what finally pushed me to the super sketchy-sounding freetaxusa. Its actually been great for the last few years - easier than TurboTax and cheaper

Isn't being "out of control" kind of the point? Right now we have an executive branch with Essential Functions like military, domestic enforcement, ATC, etc. still intact. We have no functioning legislative branch and President rules by executive order unconstrained by the judicial branch. How is this not exactly what a would-be King would want?

Dude sucks for sure, but real talk: I think when the seas rise and the food gets scarce and there's no way we can avoid doing something, the powers that be will resort to some kind of geo-engineering BS. It'll be a coin flip if that kills all of us

Too /s!

I kind of agree with you. I think people aren't seeing that without the subsidies, the 300% price increase is just the actual price. ACA did a lot of good things, but the real insanity is the government subsidizing ACA plans but not directly offering a public option. Frickin Lieberman