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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Qatar’s ghost flights – an open secret within the aviation sector – are “taking the piss” out of Australia’s strict aviation laws, industry sources say, and are occurring despite the Albanese government rejecting the airline’s formal request to increase flights out of concern the extra capacity would go against Australia’s “national interest”.

    Honestly, I don’t blame Qatar Airways. Good on them for getting around this protectionist nonsense policy.

    Air travel is already quite expense and carbon heavy. Actively blocking routes makes the system less efficient, expensive, and will emit more carbon. Isn’t that also against Australia’s “national interest”?














    1. Maintain a central registry of who owns what housing and who lives there (necessary for the policies below). This can be used to audit abuses
    1. Raise property taxes on vacant housing
    1. Introduce a new yearly anti-speculation tax that depends on the owner of the unit:
    • Canadian citizens: 0%.
    • Permanent residents and people with work permits: 0%.
    • Companies established in Canada:
    • Single-family dwelling: 5%.
    • Dwelling between two and 6 units: 2%
    • Housing with more units: 0%
    • All other assumptions: 10% <-- this includes foreign investors

    Why all this bureaucracy? We can simply just shift property taxes to land value taxes. Much more equitable and it would disincentivize speculation and incentivize density. You only need to know who owns which parcel of land so its much less bureaucratic.