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[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn't that a better idea?

If someone owns three £10M mansions, they're potentially depriving two families of homes by way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you're not being deprived of a home?

If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they're potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.

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