Like most taxes it’s possible to do a progressive property tax, where the more your properties are collectively worth the higher rate of tax you pay. This doesn’t sound like what is being proposed here, but it is very-much possible and hopefully it gets changed before it’s passed.

Done right this will leave owner/occupiers in the same state they are in now, mildly reduce the profitability of small time landlords and make large scale landlords financial nonsense viable forcing them to sell.

The actual risk is that because it lowers house prices by artificially reducing the demand it won’t encourage housebuilding which is the only real solution when more people want or need to live in a place than there is housing.

That said, I am optimistic this increases supply enough by forcing sales of under occupied properties to offset the reduction in built supply.

Fixed, thank you.

Yeah, fair that is probably a truer reading of their intent, I will edit my post to refer to yours.

I would still argue that taking proven approaches that cut security services related murders by up to 98.5% is worth doing and dismissing that on the basis that anarchism if somehow implemented in the US would solve the last 1.5% is…

Well whatever, I don’t want to try to debate people out of anarchism, especially not here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_annual_rates_and_counts_for_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers

• Venuzela is 1st with 1829.9 per 10M
• USA is at 29th with 33.1 per 10M
• Poland is at 60th with 0.5 per 10M
• Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Croatia are recorded as 0

Declaring something happens in every country with armed police Is asinine when it happens 55 times more in some places and 66 times less in others.

When there are countries with such a dramatically lower rate of security services killing civilians there are important lessons to be learned there, rather than throwing up our hands and saying something like “well states will murder wherever states exist, don’t worry about it, it’s normal”. Edit: better characterisation in pupperdreams’ reply below

They are arguing the definitions with someone who was “arguing” with someone who lived through the reality

It’s generally not even Londoners re-posting crime “news” about the capital (we live there, so we know) it’s more certain people from rural areas who neither live, work or visit London.

Those certain people are either the ones who have a chip on their shoulder about how London is a success despite not catering exclusively to white native born people, or people who just got sucked into an alternate reality where they read so much crime news that everyone in London must get stabbed once a year.

There is also a healthy dosage of conflating per square mile and per capita crime

Oh it’s easy;

Does doing it the correct way increase your workload but make the business more profitable in the short term? Do it the correct way.

Does doing it the correct way preserve your safety at the cost of operating efficiency? Do it the incorrect way.

The second kind of unfollowed rule is there as a liability shield, it’s so that if you get hurt the business can claim you weren’t following your mandatory training and they aren’t liable.

But if people did follow it then they would get a kind word from their supervisor saying we don’t have the time for that even if it is in the official training. Because the supervisor themselves is in a worse bind, they have to tell management that the new liability shield is being followed as it won’t work otherwise, but they are on the hook for the productivity of their team in such a way that they can’t allow people to follow the slow process.