[ubernostrum]

politicians dictating what you can and cannot do with your property

OK, let's completely legalize Airbnb-style temporary rentals... but make the host bear the full cost of it. Not the small fraction of the cost the host thinks about, but the actual cost with all the externalities factored in.

Because really the only way Airbnb works is if it offloads significant costs onto unconsenting and often unaware third parties. And all those goshdurned gubmint regulations? They bring the cost of running a hotel-like business into line with, well, the actual cost of running a hotel-like business. But we can replace them all with just a single charge if you like.

[mc32]

Do we want to go down the externalities rabbit hole? Do we tax people who cannot knowingly fiscally responsibly afford to have kids more because their kids cause tax externalities that people who don't have kids have to bear (school, food, health subsidies, quality of life impact, etc.)?

[lovich]

And then do we we tax people who benefit from the economic output of these children after someone else raises them? Figuring out the extent of these externalities is not easy, but ignoring their existence is like putting your head in the sand

[ap3]

How do I benefit from the economic output of other people?

[ab5tract]

We absolutely should tax the shit out of the cretins spawning more 'arrows for god' or parents so broken in the head that they push out 5 kids because they are chasing a specific gender.

[dang]

You can't comment like this on HN, and I noticed you've posted another ideological rant elsewhere. Please stop doing that.

Comments here need to be both civil and substantive. Heated rhetoric is neither, so it lowers the signal/noise ratio at both ends.