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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
[COLOR="Blue"]Your rather cold-hearted approach to this situation is crueller than I’d have held you for.
The doubling of Council Tax is a disgusting raid on people’s in heritances because they failed to properly stimulate the housebuilding industry.
Your socialised services point is correct; we pay for those through the 100% Council Tax that we contribute without drawing on any of them except the very occasional bin collection.
I’m not asking for a second home exemption; the new tax should have had more flexibility to allow for the situation we face. As it stands, it is as cold hearted as you seem to be and an evidence of government failure to build more homes.
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You seem to think you’re the only person who has ever had to wrestle with what to do with additional property. I’m not inexperienced in this area and if my attitude seems cruel to you, be assured I have been equally cruel to myself.
It’s not on for you to point the finger solely at the failure to build houses, real though that is, when we have a genuine problem in certain parts of the country with families who have lived in an area for generations and can no longer find anywhere to live thanks to holiday homes. Housing is first and foremost a requirement of human existence. Housing as leisure is a distant second. Housing as an investment should frankly be extremely tightly regulated as it is one area in which those who already have material means are demonstrably making life more difficult for those without.
If you have more than one house in your possession then you are one of the super-privileged few and frankly you should either pay a sum that recognises your privilege or sell to someone that actually needs it.