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The fact that the only way to meaningfully lower housing costs requires letting capitalists make a lot of money building expensive new homes kind of breaks a lot of people’s brains.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler.com

12 Mar

Markets sometimes serve working people's interests.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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If you think developers are making too much money building homes, you should raise taxes on their incomes instead of imposing de facto taxes on new development.

Jonathan Eby@jonathaneby.bsky.social

i think the way to solve this is to make rich people pay taxes

12/3/26, 1:58 am15 reposts179 likes

Travis Brooks

@travisbrookswho.bsky.social

12 Mar

Tax the bad thing. Excessive wealth is bad. More homes for more folks and families is good.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler.com

12 Mar

Precisely. What we tax and how we tax it matters!

Car Lite San Mateo

@carlitesanmateo.com

12 Mar

Sometimes I wonder why the people that think developers can just print free money from cities don't become developers. I would love a free city-powered money printing machine!

Westside Backyard

@westside-backyard.bsky.social

12 Mar

Or start a nonprofit to build the affordable housing they say it's so easy to do

Jonathan Eby

@jonathaneby.bsky.social

12 Mar

i yearn for the day when we decide it's good to pay taxes, and it's good for rich people to pay more taxes. rich people are acting so weird because no one wants to make them pay taxes.