• vaccinationviablowdart
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    1 day ago

    you only want to make people pay for what they take, and people buying big houses definitely do that.

    No they don’t because they don’t pay the whole value of taxes to get services in such an inefficient manner.

    There is no home you can buy that is small enough to NOT be inaccessible to most people.

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      5 hours ago

      Are you thinking of sewer lines, garbage pickup, roads and the like?

      I think it’s quite possible that if they weren’t free, lifestyles would change to accommodate it, including a lot more people going car-free and transit growing to accommodate that. OP’s talking about something different, though, and I’m guessing the effect on house sizes just from non-free services would be mild, if measurable.