Law is complicated for many reasons. Private people (here referred to as the personally taxed) don’t have the means, both financial and time, sometimes also the ability to understand the language used in lawmaking, which isn’t made to be easily understood, to keep up with the law. Normally people aren’t really expected to, if you’re a “good” person (morality being subjective and cultural, of course), you’re unlikely to break a law and get punished for it (not diving into edge cases of people forced by their circumstances). But then you’re forced to comply with tax law. If it’s automated, you can get unrightfully made to pay more without your knowledge. If it’s not, you get forced into a game staged against you. People shouldn’t be taxed. Tax should be solely handled by the companies, because they have the means to hire people dedicated to taxes. I feel like this is very important and tax is frequently brought up in many ways, but I don’t see people speaking of this and I’d love to!

Disclaimer: I file for tax literally refreshing for it to be available and help other people with their tax. It’s precisely why I think personal taxation is wrong. I know too many people who paid way too much in tax and didn’t know and cannot claim it, because it’s been too long since.

  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    making it so one person can only own however much housing their family needs. I.e. dictating it by square meters per person inside the family, so they cannot game it through making

    Honestly, we can just say, one house per household. No need to get into finer and finer graduations of “how much is too much”

    Like, the problem is hedge funds and investment companies buying houses to rent, and people who own like 10 houses. There is a lot of people that have far in excess of what is needed, before we would ever need to actually break it down by square foot.

    • Twink [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nah. I know of too many families living in way too much of confined spaces and of too many old people who feel lonely having multiple spare rooms, but won’t move to make way for families who need the space. And no, endlessly building isn’t the solution. Urban planning can take only so much horizontal space and nature literally needs the horizontal space, because, unlike humanity, it cannot go higher.

      • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I know of too many families living in way too much of confined spaces and of too many old people who feel lonely having multiple spare rooms, but won’t move to make way for families who need the space

        I honestly don’t think those are the people that are the cause of a housing crisis.