Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Property taxes should act as a mechanism to promote increased density. If you can’t afford the property taxes on your land, that’s probably a sign that more people should be living on that land.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
That brings in the discussion of zoning reform which these very same people would never support.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I understand the politics of it, but that doesn’t change what the right thing to do is economically.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
Well… hoarding all of the generational wealth and then crying about the taxes being to high for you to keep it isn’t really the right thing to do either. We’re on the same side of the argument, but that won’t make anything change.