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The City of Bonavista has taken a new approach to dealing with airbnb hosts who represent unfair competition for hotels and bread-and-breakfast ins because they don't pay business taxes. They cut your sewer and water lines.
Bonavista cuts off services for Airbnb operators with unpaid business tax bills.
"We have gone to some pretty serious measures to collect. We have literally dug up driveways and turned off water (and) sewer service until the bill is paid, cutting them off completely from all municipal services.
-- Mayor John Norman
If people can't even drive their car onto your property, take a shower, use the toilet, you're pretty motivated to pony up.
The mayor said the taxation method has been successful, but he acknowledges not all Airbnb owners are pleased.
"I don't think some are happy about it, but it is what it is."
This is a pretty effective fix to unfair competition by airbnb hosts. The next question is, how can we apply the same thinking to uber and lyft?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @06:58PM (3 children)
I recognize no such thing. In fact, I explicitly said:
Don't put words in my mouth khallow.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 11 2019, @10:33PM (2 children)
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So perhaps ou're saying bad law shouldn't be changed? I'm curious what was different about the words that I "put in your mouth" than what you actually said.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 12 2019, @11:33PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 13 2019, @03:20AM
And you keep asserting without evidence such things. As you admitted [soylentnews.org], long term rental is not a business even though it charges money and isn't a charity. What makes informal short term rental any different? Why does the time frame matter? The logic just isn't there to support your arguments.
Note that the AC poster has disavowed nothing. Sure, there's the disavowal, but it doesn't actually disavow anything. My view is that any words that I "put" in the AC's mouth were the words of the AC poster. If they don't like that, then maybe they should have said something different instead. It's not a straw man, if you actually said it.
A poster's inability to argue rationally is not my troll. You can't even show basic premises like that Airbnb participation is automatically a business despite repeated assertion. How can we define a business that excludes renting a spare bedroom long term, but not renting a spare bedroom short term? How about if the landlord is using Airbnb to manage their long term rental of the spare bedroom. Does that become a business then?