[openbasic]

Yeah, let's force citizens to bow to their government masters and pay their "fair" share, while Big Hotel lobbies away, competes unfairly and gets huge tax benefits.

[fifnir]

Let's allow richer-than-us foreigners to come to our city, buy all the houses, and then keep them empty to make tax-free money through air-bnb.

Fuck the locals, there's tourists that want to enjoy the sun in the summer and arabs that need to invest their petrol dollars.

[jstanley]

> keep them empty to make tax-free money through air-bnb.

You don't make a lot of money through AirBnB if you are keeping the place empty.

[fifnir]

But you can make more per month than renting, even if it's empty for most of the days.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Yeah, let's force community residents to deal with noise and parties and the increased cost of housing brought by AirBnb while allowing AirBnb and their billionaire investors to make a lot of money while pushing off all the externalities on the communities.