[toomuchtodo]

If you think taxes are stealing, versus financial contribution for being allowed to capture value or maintain ownership of wealth (whether inherited or aggregated), middle ground is unlikely to be found. I like taxes, with them I buy civilization. Vienna is a public housing model shown to work [1].

[1] HN Search: vienna housing - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[nradov]

Taxes aren't theft. But there's an enormous difference between paying for things like law enforcement and public sanitation versus subsidizing housing in desirable areas for politically favored groups. And if we want certain people to be able to live in certain places then it would be more efficient to both give them cash handouts and remove restrictions on new construction instead of artificially distorting the housing market.