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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Personality and lifestyle dependent, too.

The problem I have with the space tax idea, which I think OP has mentioned before, is just that it presupposes what people need without much justification, and then applies a penalty to force that outcome. Really, you only want to make people pay for what they take, and people buying big houses definitely do that. (Having inequality in the first place is of course it's own issue)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours 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.