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To solve Dutch housing crisis, proposal aimed to ban the rich from buying some homes. Could it work here? (www.cbc.ca)
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In an attempt to deal with an affordable housing crisis, the Dutch housing minister recently proposed a law that would have allowed municipalities to force some property owners to sell their homes only to low and middle-income earners. The problem the policy is trying to fix is one that's particularly acute in Canada.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Taxes should be income based.

I think taxes should be mostly wealth based, not income based.

You want to know why?

Because it's easy for some rich bastard to report zero income while having billions in assets.

Someone who already can't make end's meet would feel the sting of any amount of taxation in day-to-day life compared to a billionaire.

Wealth hoarding should be severely taxed. You want more land than humanly acceptable? Six houses at 10,000sq+ each? 15 cars? A tennis court and equestrian ranch for friends and family? Fine, get ready to pay a lot for it on an ongoing basis.