[stogot]

> People talk about taxing granny out of her house, but they conveniently forget to mention that granny is keeping half a dozen people homeless by hoarding an underutilized property.

That’s a distasteful and predatory way to speak of someone who rightfully bought her property, possibly a widow, and just wants to live in peace versus having someone (business or gov) try to break the rules to take her property.

[epistasis]

It is far more distasteful and predatory to hide behind widows with a fundamentally unfair system. Whoever wants to take away the opportunity of others, let them pay. It's not hard.

It's far more distasteful to ignore the needs of everyone to give a very minor convenience to somebody with a lot of wealth.

Winston Churchill on this sort of old and wrong political argument about widows:

https://savingcommunities.org/docs/churchill.winston/budgetr...