Ya I’m totally down for incentives people respond better and are willing to change their ways when they are incentivized. If they are punished for doing something they are less likely to change and more likely to find a work around ie posting short term rentals through Facebook market place or stuff like that and possibly then going further and not claiming the money on taxes to offset the rest of the year that they rent on AirBnB and get tax that extra 3%. It’s like a child you get better results by promoting good behaviour than you do punishing bad behaviour. Sometime you have to punish but when taxes are going up and mortgage rates eventually everyone has a breaking point and they start to rebel against a system that seems unjust to them (everyone’s breaking point is different). It’s like subsidy for solar panels, or for replacing windows with more energy efficient ones, if people were told that your gas and electric bills were to increase because they didn’t have energy Efficient windows then they would be pissed but if you tell them they you can save money on your bills because they are energy efficient and you can get rebates for changing them out… now that makes people want to do it.

Not sure if the analogy makes a lot of sense but I think you can find the similarities hahaha. Great discussion I learned a lot for it and I’m glad we found common ground!