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0 pointslegitster1y ago0 comments

Agreed that you need to liberalize housing policy. But one mistake Canada made is that they took a huge influx of wealthy, skilled immigrants.

In the US, immigrants are much poorer and come in at the bottom of the labor and housing markets.

But yes, anything besides raising taxes is irresponsible.

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bediger40001y ago

Conservatives can't raise taxes. It's an article of faith, very literally, that taxes are bad, and that lowering taxes raises tax revenue.

toomuchtodo1y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#Americans_for_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform

dave44201y ago

I don’t know what Republicans are these days, but they aren’t economic conservatives. That they think the Laffer curve kicks in at the level taxes are today is one of the giveaways.

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