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For millennials (maybe too late?) and definitely Zoomers with a propensity to build/create, the post-COVID “frontier” is not SF, Boston, etc., but rather the hollowed-out small towns and rural villages of pre-WW2 origin.
These are the true opportunity zones for real, meaningful change towards societal, economic and climate resilience.
I propose a Neo-Homestead Act:
- A 10-year, 50% reduction in income tax if you move to one of these places after trade school or college
- A 10-year, 100% reduction if one of these places is the place where you, or your parents grew up.
- What else?
- A 10-year, 50% reduction in income tax if you move to one of these places after trade school or college
- A 10-year, 100% reduction if one of these places is the place where you, or your parents grew up.
- What else?
My New Years resolution is to repeat this over and over to anyone who will listen.
Heavy taxes and permit fees for construction projects on greenfield sites. Subsidies for rehabbing existing historic structures (the older and more in need of saving, the bigger the subsidy).
Tax incentives on a per-employee basis to corporations that create work-from-home opportunities for employees who fit one of the 2 original criteria above. Working for locally owned businesses is of course preferable, but this is a good intermediate step to bring earners back.
So happy to see this thread take off and that people seem engaged in the topic. Would love to hear more people’s ideas!
