http://sfappeal.com/2014/06/supes-activists-file-anti-speculation-tax-measure/ SF Appeal: San Francisco's Online Newspaper Sun, 06 May 2018 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 http://sfappeal.com/2014/06/supes-activists-file-anti-speculation-tax-measure/#comment-26042 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:40:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=70389#comment-26042 I love socialism.

]]> http://sfappeal.com/2014/06/supes-activists-file-anti-speculation-tax-measure/#comment-26038 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:31:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=70389#comment-26038 Sounds like socialism to me. For a country that doesn’t like socialism there sure is a lot of it here.

]]> http://sfappeal.com/2014/06/supes-activists-file-anti-speculation-tax-measure/#comment-25825 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:42:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=70389#comment-25825 Forty years ago in law school I learned of the strong public policy favoring “alienability”–ability to sell–property. Property would go for highest and best use. Since then we’ve perverted with rent control, which “taxes” some landlords, giving a monthly subsidy to lucky tenants. Out of that perversion grows another: if certain buyers can rid the property of the rent control “tax” then they will. So we get “speculators.” Doesn’t it stem from perverting the market? Of course politically rent control cannot be challenged; any politician doing so commits suicide. So we’re endlessly fixing perversions. If the city values low income tenants, should it not pay, not those who happen to be unlucky owners of pre-1979 units? I am not nor ever have been a landlord.

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