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They should just increase the taxes on rental income to make it less profitable. It's too easy to be a bum landlord.


The landlords would raise the rent to pass the tax along? If all landlords have this tax, all landlords will be raising rents.


Higher rent means more people will opt to buy. That's not necessarily a bad thing in perspective. Assuming the other side effect is a decrease in costs due to a lower profit margin.


I believe your comment is operating under the assumption that people are merely choosing to rent over buying because it's the more economically wise choice. That's not how things work in reality. Many people want to buy but cannot put up the initial costs.


I fit the description of someone who has the cash to make a down payment, but if I were to buy the property I currently rent, I would be paying $1000 more a month.


> Many people want to buy but cannot put up the initial costs.

This, monthly rent actually costs more here in Ireland than what you would pay monthly for mortgage.


Many things cost less when you pay for 40 years up front


More people opting to buy means house prices go up.

There's no free lunch. The more friction, taxation, and tariffs you add to the housing market, the higher prices go for both renters and home purchasers.


If rent is higher, how will people save for a down payment?


Why's this so highly rated. Y'all don't know that fast is good?


guess everybody misses software that you can tell the maker cares...


It's somewhat telling that the most valuable part of an company is the people, some things don't change


Love that this company is still around. I've seen some of their rolls in the wild but assumed they were long gone!


I went to maybe slightly above average high school for my area and didn't have one. But there were programs where the school partnered with community colleges and students maintaining decent grades could attend classes elsewhere. And those had shop as well as other vocational programs.

They probably sent us home with a pamphlet with information at the beginning of the year, but I don't remember.



I usually wait 6mo to a year in order for composer dependencies I use to get updated. Then its usually a trivial upgrade. I've upgraded sooner before for simpler projects though and things are usually pretty stable upon release.


Modern in software terms almost always just means recently written. Last couple years. It's a pretty useless adjective to describe software.

E.g. sqlite probably wouldn't be called modern, but everyone loves it so who cares.


Examples of poor polling data for $200


DEI mentions in earnings calls sounds solid to me fwiw


That doesn't follow if you assume that promotion of an idea is highest when it seeks to establish dominance, and goes away if it becomes hegemonic / the "new normal".


Well maybe that is a bad assumption in this case


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