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No I don't. I believe landlords grab any excuse to price gouge. You're tilting at a strawman.

Edit 1: We agree rent is a problem, we disagree that your LVT "one weird trick" is effective, and I'm hostile to the trojan-horse-end-of-income-tax which gets this stuff on HN in the first place.

Edit 2: you'll win more hearts without the patronizing/smug rhetoric.

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Apologies for the condescension. The position you've outlined makes no logical sense to me, so i discounted it. Let me ask in a spirit of enquiry: Why are they waiting for LVT?

They hike the rent ten percent and say it's because of LVT - if LVT didn't exist, they'd say it was because of the war on Iran, or interest rates, or mercury in retrograde.

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