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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
A house and a plot of land are our right to own if we want it, its one of the tenets of our form of society.
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Wanting is in itself insufficient - are you willing to pay for government housing for low-income people that would come from increased taxation on yourself, so that this so-called "right" to land and a house is available to everyone? Or do you actually mean it's a "right" for those who can afford it, which is not at all the same thing...
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If the city wants us to move everyone downtown let them offer tax neutral incentives that I don't have to pay for.
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As usual the straw man makes its appearance - no one is saying everyone has to move downtown. There just needs to be an equitable distribution of the tax burden so that the true cost of suburban living comes out of the pockets of the people that actually live there.