No one does that.

If your policy change is going to harm the less fortunate then you should re-evaluate the policy.

A land value tax just shifts those who can't afford it out of their homes and hands more land over to the wealthy.

Land isn't the problem with housing. The problem is that developers have figured out it's more profitable to build fewer expensive properties than a large number of affordable ones. Not only do they have to do less work, but it keeps the market artificially low and so lets them charge more for what inventory they do have.

So they do just that.

And the residential development market has such a huge investment level to enter you won't see many willing to roll the dice on mass producing affordable housing.

Show me a home builder who has plans which are less than 3k sqft these days. You won't find one.

No.

Ah, I see.

Eh, I'm here to relax and have fun.

Not be told I'm a piece of shit who deserves to be executed because I had the audacity to be born every ten minutes.

It's a chicken and egg situation.

It's frustrating because I don't know it, and I don't learn it because it's frustrating.

I just don't see the value versus the effort I guess.

I don't currently have a valid passport; I haven't felt a need for one.

America itself is so big that I can spend my life visiting different parts of it and never run out.

Having a passport and traveling intentionally just feels like an unwanted hassle.

Yes, they exist, but then so do lesbian women.

The existence of homosexuality doesn't make the gender imbalance any less painful.****

I was pointing out that this statement you made:
Gaza has a majortiy of Muslims but never rejected "citizenship" to Jews or Christians.

Is very, very wrong.

That's what makes the whole thing complicated, isn't it?

Israel shouldn't have existed to begin with and when it did, it shouldn't have acted the way it has since its inception.

Yes, Israel is to blame for Hamas having power in Gaza today as well.

I'm not arguing that Israel isn't a bad guy here.

What I'm arguing is I don't see an alternative that doesn't just kick the can down the road.

Exactly.

There really is nothing to negotiate anyway.

Ukraine does not want to give up territory.

Giving Russia anything for it is tatamount to paying a ransom. It would only encourage Russia to invade again in a decade or less.

Russia turning around and giving up the territory without gaining anything is just accepting complete defeat. They won't do that.

So it's a battle of attrition, both morale and economic.