Only in the northern hemisphere.
1,908 karma · joined March 28, 2013
Only in the northern hemisphere.
They did that, that's how Reid Hoffman got early access to write his book, that's how Microsoft got access to start working on Bing/ChatGPT4 for a cool $10 billion and that's how countless of other got early access. Got the money, got the marketing and got the synchronized deployment of multiple use cases by a selected crew of companies and they get to say the corpspeak of 'we care, we didn't release on August!'. This is taken from the Apple iOS SDK book, you make the API changes and release privately to have the announcement and a parade of implementations by third party to prove that it is viable.
1) first home tax-free - the address you submit your yearly taxes on. Incentivize people to own at least one home.
2) second property you pay taxes for both homes now - no more tax free benefit since you are able to afford more than one place.
3) more than 2 properties you pay taxes for all of them times some factor 0.05*N houses. Fudge around with the factor to allow more supply for all the first home buyers since now it it is more expensive to hold multiple properties.
Not sure if this falls under Georgism.
"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". - Frederick Jelinek
Counselor Jerry: A spark isn't a soul's purpose. Oh, you mentors and your passions. Your "purposes." Your "meanings of life." So basic.