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Scott Edgar
@scottedgar.bsky.social

My city has designed its property tax regime to tax younger people and recent immigrants at higher rates than older people and long-time (disproportionately white) residents. This is a genuinely villainous policy.

Dan Peterson@danp.net

Key findings: CAP shifts the tax burden onto non‑capped properties The gap between market and taxable values is widening CAP creates substantial inequities among homeowners New buyers face “tax shock” Rental market inequities are significant CAP benefits are unevenly distributed

Dan Peterson
@danp.net

*province, I think the city would like it gone/changed

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Scott Edgar
@scottedgar.bsky.social

My more considered (and yet somehow angier) take: bsky.app/profile/scot...

Scott Edgar@scottedgar.bsky.social

When I first arrived in NS, the public conversation was all about the Ivany Report, and its findings on why young people and immigrants were fleeing the province. Since then, NS has never stopped telling young people and immigrants that they're nothing but ATMs to be used by old white people.