Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds
TON618@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI don’t necessarily agree that people can’t make any money on a property portfolio, but it should definitely have a set limit to prevent life’s essentials from becoming unaffordable. But I wouldn’t stop there and continue this with other essentials like healthy consumables and utilities like power and some basic form of broadband internet.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Why not guarantee the basic necessities to all citizens? They pay taxes, after all; it’s just that those tax dollars mostly go to bombing people overseas, funding multiple genocides, overmilitarization of police, corporate subsidies and bailouts, etc.
We can very easilly redirect at least some of those tax dollars to pay for everyones’ basic needs, including, but not limited to: housing, healthcare, food, water, waste, high speed internet, public transit (like a bus/train pass).
And if we still don’t have enough tax dollars for that, we can very easilly make more than enough by taxing billionaires and corporations at their appropriate rate, getting rid of all loopholes by ensuring there is a tax floor that all corporations have to pay.
Now, the system I am actually in favor of expands upon this idea of social democracy that I described above by forcing all corporations to become worker-owned coops after splitting them up into small businesses (by city, county, or rural region depending on what the locals prefer). I would also like a hard wealth cap of $50 million tied to inflation. Nobody needs more than $50 million to have more than a happy retirement, regardless of age.
I believe that money = power, and power leads to inevitable corruption. Therefore, the only logical way to prevent corruption is to prevent people from ever being able to have that kind of power.