• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I think it’s a tax on housing. It doesn’t make a difference how it’s applied. But I like how it incentives less luxury.

    Good job America isn’t the only country in the world. The transition to renewables isn’t even slowing down without America.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Sorry yeah, I am American and doing the American thing.

      In America, marketing, messaging, is everything, because we’re a bunch of fucking morons basically, not capable of critical thinking.

      But hey if you think the general ideas here would work with other messaging in other areas, go for it!

      I’m a bit charged about all this as these kinds of policies being implemented or not is going to be a life and death issue, very very soon, for tens of millions of Americans when the Republicans functionally end Medicaid and Section 8 (our pathetic but at least existing housing subsidy programs for the poor).

      In America it is now literally illegal to exist while homeless. So… if we don’t fix the housing situation, and a whole bunch of people are made homeless… yeah, tens of millions will either die or be sent to jail/prison within a year or two.

      Potentially including myself… I am disabled and rely on SSDI, which… at least currently doen’t appear to be directly on the chopping block… but that could change in an instant.