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  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLotterule
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    2 months ago

    I violently disagree with you.

    Gambling and playing lottery is a method to take a risk and get essentially free money by doing nothing, other than taking the risk. Personally I think anything like this gambling related should be taxed up the wazoo. Definitely more than 50%. And that taxed amount should ideally go back to fund things like schools and stuff good for everyone.

    Final note, if you ain’t happy with 400M free money, you cray cray.








  • I feel like this is easy to answer and I’m not sure why the question comes up so often.

    People have jobs and get payed salaries to both build and maintain houses/apartments. Rent payments would go to pay the actual people that did the building / do the maintenance. Nobody makes profit off this. No landlord, no investor, no profit. The money goes to cover building costs, then maintenance. Easy peasy.

    We have things like this. People build and maintain our public roads, schools, water/sewer systems, fire departments, military, etc.

    No profits. No landlord gets free money for renting. No wallstreet investor gets free money for selling at high market values, etc.

    Obviously, decisions have to be made about supply/demand, areas where lots of people want to live and all that. So what? Let’s make those decisions intelligently instead of greed and profit driven.