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> In Auckland, New Zealand, investors are buying property and houses en masse.

That isn't exactly a bad problem to have--if free construction is allowed and property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) aren't constrained, it would be fairly straightforward to fund a significant portion of the governments' budgets, plus a basic income or rent subsidy, by a taxing foreign investors.




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