UnderpantsWeevil, 1 year ago (edited 6 months ago)

I have seen the amount paid in property taxes in USA via Zillow and… It is HUGE

A snake eating its own tail. Lenders keep cranking out cheap loans, inflating the money supply. Buyers keep bidding up prices, inflating the cost of housing. Municipal governments need the extra cash to fight the endless “crime wave” that mysteriously crests every election cycle, so they’re always ratcheting up their spending for larger and more comically overequipped police departments. And then we’ve got another big economic downturn, so its time to lower interest rates and send out a new wave of cheap loans.

Nobody can afford to have housing prices go down. Just look at what that did to the economy in 2008.

Cause enterprieses and billionaires don’t pay taxes and cause they put their huge capitals also in real estate, raising the prices.

The threat of capital flight (which would leave you with a large number of unpaid and extremely irate police officers) means you can’t risk upsetting the ultra-wealthy.

And besides, their job isn’t to pay taxes, its to create jobs. They employ people in your town and then the employees pay the taxes. The employees get to see their housing prices rise, so they grumble but don’t complain too much. And then you have more money to hire more cops to protect against the latest Crime Wave that just so happens to be paired with a wave of housing foreclosures from lay-offs. So its time to clear the streets, re-list the houses at a higher price, and issue new mortgages with another wave of subprime loans.

If you really want to spice things up, maybe we denominate all our accounts in bitcoin, so we can really start speculating.