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I haven't looked into it much either. Most cities who have tried it are in PA though including Mayor Reed in Harrisburg.

If you have a home and buy the lot next you and merge them, your taxes still go up. I get the vacant building issue but I also thinks this hurts redevelopment and definitely farmers.

This entier post sounds like a practice speech, a horrible one at that.

Access to safe and sound healthcare lowers the rate of abortions. Deny that care, and abortions go up (along with complications therein). Supplementally, good sex education helps decrease teen pregnancies.

The same moral panics bear the same regressive results, and people needlessly suffer as a result. We need to embrace science, not Bibles.

I'm glad they tell us these things. It informs us that their decisions are based on politics and religion, not on the important facets of the job.

Yeah, that wasn't Allentown's case. There it was on the land parcel vs. size of building on it to encourage more taxable development.

Personally, I appreciated the yelling- to make sure that the people in the back got the message.

I also don’t see anything wrong with posting it in every state’s subreddit. Due to gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts, too many state legislatures are Red and don’t truly represent the will of the people who will be forced to live under the laws they create. The crazies are working hard right now to stomp on every single one of our rights. Oh no, wait- except the right to own and carry around weapons which are capable of killing dozens of our fellow citizens in less than a minute.

Here in PA, they are busy bickering over whether to put some questions on the ballot about changing our Constitution- including raising the voting age to 21. I’m guessing that they have done research that shows it’s those pesky young people voting Blue, so they’re trying to take away their right to vote any way they can. What’s more, they want the questions to be on the ballot in the May Primary, an election that’s has notoriously low turnout- except for old folks- especially in a year where we don’t vote for President.

Please, people- VOTE. In. Every. Single. Election.

It's really telling that you think people's right to healthcare and bodily autonomy is "the current thing." And it's unfortunate that it's not even true.

Right, so you’d be taxing the land more and the building less. Which is the opposite of what you usually see - put on an addition, your taxes go up.

In most places, where you tax on improvements, the cheapest option might be to sit on an empty lot or dead building because as soon as you put something on it, your taxes go up. That might be risky in a low population area where you might not be able to get staff or customers. But tax the land, then you don’t have as much risk involved.

Rare is a difficult goal to achieve. 1. We have a rampant rape problem. Agree or not it does exist and women are punished for reporting rape. 2. Birth control does fail. It can be extremely reliable but it is not 100%. The best you can do is make the morning after pill easily accessible and affordable but unfortunately not every will know their form of birth control has failed for 6-8 weeks at the earliest. Not everyone has reliable menstrual cycles. It seems like it should be an easy to avoid pregnancy but the only way to do that is abstinence. Abstinence is just not a realistic solution because even married people can have an unwanted pregnancy. At the end of the day this is a private decision that has many factors including health, finances, support structures and no one especially a government should be forcing women to give birth. If our society truly wanted to be pro life we should start with the society children live in today. Gun violence kills 22 children every day in the USA. We have weak support structures for women when it comes to health care accessibility and child care. Finally we have an education system that is under attack. I think you need to understand people of child bearing age are looking at their future and it really is not a good time to have children.

No, my son got his just before his 21st because we moved from out of state and he has a class A license which is more expensive. DMV told him he could get a new one but didn’t need to and he’s had no trouble buying alcohol.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter

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>So the landowner sitting on a dead factory needs to pay taxes on it,

In PA, the owner of that land is paying tax on it. Cannot be otherwise under PA assessment law.

16 weeks, most of Europe is 12-16 weeks. Americas abortion laws are pretty relaxed compared to most of the world.

States with the most extreme abortion restrictions have terrible mortality rates for childbirth of the child and mother especially. Look to Texas for birth mortality rate higher than most countries as the huge discrepancy between white and black mothers for this as well. So it's not just anti-woman but it ends up being racist as well.

The land is not the product. Rather, the land is purchased with the product I make (income which is taxed), so I should not face a double tax on what is mine.

I think it’s moving taxes not reducing them. So the landowner sitting on a dead factory needs to pay taxes on it, so they’d be more likely to either build something or sell it to someone who will build something.

The thing is that people who are pro-life are also usually in a political spectrum that reduces rights for others based on religious principles. They don’t want gay people to marry or adopt. They’d rather hold on to legislation that was written centuries ago regarding guns than do anything to protect everyone from this mass shooting madness we’re in. They seek to censure an erase lives that are unlike their principles. So most of the time is not a single issue you’re voting against it’s a cornucopia of bigotry.

Pregnancy is inherently a life threatening condition. That is not an exaggeration. Many women - myself included - would choose suicide over pregnancy. I’m fortunate enough to have gotten approved for sterilization, but many women’t don’t have insurance or won’t get approved. Treating birth control and abortion access like healthcare is the way forward

Does France have abortion rights?

No, they mean providing easy access to healthcare and preventative measures so women don't need to get an abortion, not make it illegal and pretend you've solved the problem.

If I'm lactose intolerant should I campaign to stop subsidizing milk?

This comment section would be lit 10 years ago. I wish I was around on reddit during the Ron Paul revolution days when it wasn't just Chinese shilling NPCs.

Edit: if this would have been titled promoting the ESG score increase the NPCs would have been fawning.