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Rentals are fine but without massive equity accumulation. Speculators are enabling banks to push up prices and then new speculators buy in at high prices and lock in high rents as they need to pay back huge amounts of interest to the banks.

We basically need land value tax to discourage land speculation and to inhibit the huge unearned income flowing to land owners. And once this tax is introduced get rid of labour tax.



I suspect that would end up quite regressive, as the renters would end up paying the land tax on the buildings they rent (indirectly, of course).

Many of the lower income renters pay little net tax (often negative with EIC) today.




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