myrmepropagandistSep 29

“take our parking spaces to make secure, trash collection centers? no that’s oppression!”

This same person is confused why there are rats. Observe: a garbage bag with a hole chewed in it on the sidewalk, a cucumber just sitting there like we are running a health food restaurant for rats. A very healthy and cute rat doing a bad job hiding after being chased out of an empty lot where there is construction.

The trash collection sites are the one good accomplishment of our mayor.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistSep 29
Landlords who own empty lots or hold empty buildings waiting to flip them are also a big factor in the rat problem. The very cute and doomed rat in the photo came out of a construction site that had been sitting fallow for at least three years. We ought to have a tax on undeveloped lots. A nasty tax that grows by two percent a year. We don’t have the time or space to wait for these investment types who just want to hold property not live on it.
Show threadDouglas Edwards 

@futurebird Discouraging nonproductive land speculation is also said to be one of the benefits of #LandValueTax (#LVT) — and without requiring different treatment of land based on its use or lack of use. I'm not an expert but it sounds like a good idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Land value tax - Wikipedia

Sep 29 at 12:44pmWeb