The eviction ban

Now now. No need for ranting and whataboutery.

Stamp duty on house transactions - for everyone. There will be a sop to landlords in the form that they, and they alone, can effectively sell their property to a sitting tenant for zero (or reduced) stamp duty. Under the proposal, landlords would be advantaged relative to non-landlords.

You need to get over the foreva-handout mentality.

Perhaps you wouldn't get so angry if you tried actually reading posts rather than going off on a mental one.

In response to your apparent assertion that no property can ever be seized, I merely pointed out that that is not correct and gave you examples to the contrary. You going off on a mental one is then you extrapolating that to whatever you were on about. Famine etc. Nowhere did I, or anyone else, propose seizing houses. I merely pointed out that your assertion was wrong.

If you don't like my suggestion above of increasing stamp duty but giving the sop to landlords, perhaps you would prefer an alternate solution of just increasing SD rates but not giving any reliefs to anyone. Would you prefer that?

The concept of the government being able to raise a tax rate might be beyond some people's comprehension, but that should only be a minority. If those people are shocked, imagine what would happen if they heard that SD is currently 7.5% for many transactions, and was much higher in the past.

lols

The only "forcing out of their homes" will be done by landlords forcing tenants out of the tenants homes.

Nobody on this thread suggested any form of compulsory purchase for houses. Only you. It is a strawman. The proposed first refusal scheme will not even be a compulsory purchase. It will be that if a landlord willingly decides to sell, they will have to give first refusal to the tenant. But that comes AFTER they willingly decide to sell.

And no, your assertion on buying property to build a road happens more than you think. A lot of land is CPO'd for new roads and farms can be destroyed as businesses due to a motorway cutting them in half.

The seller of a house gets as much as the highest amount a buyer is willing and able to pay.

Stamp duty is levied on the buyer, not the seller. Not sure why you are suggesting that the seller will just "increase the price to cover the tax".

If they could "increase the price" today they would do that regardless of the SD level.

And an irrelevant one at that. You might well be talking about something you actually know zero about.

A garage built off a motorway will only be a windfall to the single one that sells the land. It will have no beneficial impact to the neighbouring farmer who now has a round trip journey of 10k to get to the fields he used to be able to walk to in 5 minutes. How many such garages are built? One every 50 miles along a motorway? When such installations are put in place, there will be a service road put in as well, but there will be no public access through it. The only public access is off the motorway itself and there will be no other development allowed around it.

While such bridges you describe do exist, they are very rare and are only constructed in the cases of a very large farm with a very large operation where the assessed damage to the business is more than the cost of building the bridge.

No matter how funny you think it is, there’s a lot of truth in it.

How so?

You can only spend a Euro once. Spend it on anything other than towards your housing and it’s gone forever.

Priorities and all that boring stuff.

Because it's cliched load of crap that doesn't apply to the real world. Most young people's wages go on rent, not fucking avocado toast. FFS. When you have to pay ridiculous rent prices, not to mention all the other basic cost of over priced living necessities, your ability to save for exorbitant mortgages gets severely cut.

I have talked.... Sure you have 😂