“Those too poor to own their own home pay no property taxes, but their rent reflects the taxes that the landlord must pay. The poor pay higher rents to subsidize inefficiency and waste.”

—  Mary Ruwart

Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 123

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