• kbotc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah, we give primary homeowners a ton of benefits. Like, if you go to sell your primary home, a married couple gets up to half a million in profits that can go untaxed. If you have a second property that’s not your primary, it’s taxed as capital gains.

    There’s a reason primary homes are seen as an intergenerational wealth generating vehicle in the US.

    You also don’t get to claim the deductions on a second home unless you are renting it out, so property squatting is disincentivized in tax law.

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        1 year ago

        Then get educated about how the system is set up to benefit them. There’s systems that could be useful like taxing the underlying assets that underwrite a loan if they reach a certain amount since the wealthy right now are collateralizing financial instruments like stocks to take out loans (Like Elon Musk did with his Tesla stock to buy Twitter, simply bypassing what should have been a taxable event). This one is tricky as HELOCs are used by a ton of lower on the totem pole folks to maintain their homes and cutting that off would come with some fairly disastrous consequences, like poor folks being simply unable to acquire the funds to fix a home issue before it becomes something that causes a complete loss of habitability of the property.