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Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. (gothamist.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162

Why? Because apparently they need some more incentive to keep units occupied. Also, even though a property might be vacant, there's still imputed rental income there. Its owner is just receiving it in the form of enjoying the unit for himself instead of receiving an actual rent check from a tenant. That imputed rent ought to be taxed like any other income.

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[–] -2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Oh, so you just want the state to be your landlord? Enjoy your cinderblock gulag.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can rent from someone else. That’s actually easier than moving cities, states, or countries.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    If you want to argue that the government should develop low cost housing, that’s an interesting discussion. In general, “supply” regardless of how it’s created, is the answer to high housing prices. I do fear that you’ll be dissatisfied with the quality of that government housing.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago

    No it's not. That's why you have houses and apartments for hypothetical millionaires going empty because no one can actually afford them. As long as homes and real estate have speculative value there is no guarantee that "supply" will positively affect prices or affect them enough to provide housing for everyone.

    The simple fact that there are more empty homes and apartments than there are homeless people disproves your premise.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    hmmmm

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    hmmm

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Socialism is...... When you own your own home??

    spoileryes-sicko

    che-smile

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yes, Socialism has home ownership.

    The only thing that is state affiliated more than in Capitalism is the mean of production (businesses) being owned by the state. Everything else is still owned by individuals.

    You are thinking of Communism.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Western countries already provide resources for our less fortunate friends and neighbors. But we don’t use the police power of the state to force those resources on people that don’t want them. We also don’t round them up and force them to fight for our Moscovi overlords that are just a itsy-bitsy more equal than the rest of us. Hmmmm

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In the west all of your children have the freedom to grow up as homeless crack heads living in tent cities, how inspiring.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    😂🤣😂

    Median US Household Income - $70,784

    Median Moscovi Household Income -$27,634

    Well shit, little Yuri, looks like a good deal for us.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    now compare the amount of homeless people in both, also you linked the same article twice

    btw now you have edited your article remind me, is russia a socilaist country or a neo-liberal one, like the USA?

    you have linked me info of Russian from 2010-present, in what way am I remotely suggesting a capitalist, neo-liberal country is what im adovcating for?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Homeless in the US - 0.2% of the population.

    Homeless in Russia - 3.5% of the population.

    Is this going the way you thought it would?

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Where did I use modern day capitalist russia to prove my point again?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    The US murder rate (6.81) and Russia (6.80) are virtually identical. The suicide rates though…

    US suicide rate - 14.04

    Russia suicide rate - 21.6

    No word on the window rate for each country.

    Happiness index

    US - 6.951

    Russia - 5.477

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think it's pretty hilarious that you assume everybody opposed to capitalism is Russian, and use that as a counter-example for why "communism" is failing today.

    Did history stop for you in 1991 or something? The neoliberals won; Russia has been a hyper-capitalist abomination living in the corpse of the USSR for over three decades now. Why would we care that Russia sucks? Everybody knows it sucks now.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    them up and force them to fight for our Moscovi overlords that are just a itsy-bitsy more equal than the rest of u

    Nice whataboutism you tankie! Centrist liberal tankie!!!

    Western countries already provide resources for our less fortunate friends and neighbors

    Lol. Lmao even

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It’s true. That’s why our homelessness incidence are less than 10% of yours. Maybe that’s why you’re trying to drive yours down by conscripting your homeless and forcing them into “former glory” wars?

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)
    1. Do you just assume that everyone who disagrees with you is a Russian?
    2. Did you forget Russia hasn't been communist for over three decades?
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I assume, accurately, that all you hexbears are Russian trolls, Hindu Nationalists, or various flavors of pudgey man children collectively known as college communists who want to seize the means of production from their parents that didn’t give them enough hugs. Which flavor are you? I bet it’s the last one 😂

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    As someone who has been homeless, I would MUCH rather live my entire life in a "cinderblock gulag" then spend even a second homeless. So, yes, if we ever were to get such buildings provided to us from the government, I would greatly enjoy them.

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