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Can’t the government just make a state building company which will sell homes at their real prices? It would be free for the government (even some income) and cheap for citizens. Oh, it can. Just doesn’t want. Threatening trust in “democracy”.
They could. They won’t. Too few capitalists making too much profit.
Building public housing at cost, and subsidising finance, was how Australia fought communism to begin with.
Sure. But also the imminent demise of our online privacy feels like it’s doing its own bit of threatening.
I’ll take painfully obvious things for eleven.
Tax. The. Rich!
People who don’t work overtime to pay back mortages and who have time to read and to become informed citizens can become a threat to ‘democracy’, too.