Tax the Land
<i>Local governments, which have been granted near unchecked authority by state governments, are entirely captured by homeowners.</i><p>I&#x27;m not fully clear on this statement. Is it putting forth that local governments shouldn&#x27;t be controlled by the people who are local, or is it saying that homeowners hold more power than renters? If the former, that&#x27;s just silly. If the latter, renters get the same one vote per person as everybody else. If they don&#x27;t care enough to vote that&#x27;s their problem.<p>Homeowners, like everybody else, vote in their own best interest. If you want higher-density housing figure out a way that it makes a place better for its inhabitants, not worse. Personally I&#x27;ve never lived in a city that got better as it got bigger and I vote accordingly.