Business Insider Article Rating'Selling Sunset' agents are freaking out about LA's new mansion tax -- but it's not just millionaires who should be worried
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "If the city finds that the mansion tax does disincentivize development and reduces the supply of affordable and market-rate housing, the city council could revise the law." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "LA's new tax was designed to raise dedicated revenue for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, but some advocates might agree with the Selling Sunset agents that the law is flawed -- just not for all the same reasons." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Phillips argued that if the law is tweaked to exempt first-time sales, the mansion tax will unquestionably do more good than harm.Every tax has negative consequences, Phillips said." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The court rulings will likely be appealed, and critics of the law are plaing other ways to undermine it." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In LA, Mayor Karen Bass and the city council have already determined what this year's tax revenue will be spent on." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "This is going to be a nightmare for us, says veteran real estate agent Mary Fitzgerald." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
47% : If the city finds that the mansion tax does disincentivize development and reduces the supply of affordable and market-rate housing, the city council could revise the law.42% : LA's new tax was designed to raise dedicated revenue for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, but some advocates might agree with the "Selling Sunset" agents that the law is flawed -- just not for all the same reasons.
42% : Phillips argued that if the law is tweaked to exempt first-time sales, the mansion tax "will unquestionably do more good than harm.""Every tax has negative consequences," Phillips said.
38% : The court rulings will likely be appealed, and critics of the law are planning other ways to undermine it.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.