• Acters@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally believe taxes should be a mechanism of negating bad behavior or preventing harm to communities/the people.

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      I don’t personally think taxes should be used for punishment, but I think the rules of a system should be setup to achieve the desired outcome. The rules right now are setup to benefit a few entities owning most of the real estate, and we need to build a system that makes it more expensive to own homes if you already own a home, and it should scale based on how many you already have. Also, there should be penalties for gouging people. All the pharma bros who have been hiking the price of medications through the roof have revealed that most of the people in the USA are vulnerable to captive markets.

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        The rules right now are setup to benefit a few entities owning most of the real estate

        Rules like what?

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        we need to build a system that makes it more expensive to own homes if you already own a home,

        I don’t know how most places work, but my state does this by assessing property at whatever rate, for everyone, but you get an exemption on part of the assessed value for your primary residence. My house is taxed as though it were worth $60k less because it’s where I live, not an investment or business . This seems like a good idea that would do exactly as you suggest (although that exemption should arguably be higher and should increase once in a while)