Tax Shelter Lyrics - Aus Rotten

Another vacant building is a tax shelter and nothing more 

Cemented doors and windows keeping out the poor 

What purpose does it serve to keep these buildings emply 

Destroying our community to protect abandoned property 

Functioning as financial loopholes instead of the housing they could make 

Because those owning empty buildings claim a generous government tax break 

So is housing just a luxury to b enjoyed by the upper class 

Another right you don't deserve if you haven't got the cash 

The trouble with ruling class financial tactics 

Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxes 

Destruciton described as progress evicting people from their shelter 

Renovating and rebuilding under the guise of making cities better 

But who does this progress better by putting people in the street 

Has it benefitted the community when construction is complete 

Housing is not a privledge, not a luxury but a right 

communities don't function any better with their problems out of sight 

Our communities consise of more than concrete, brick and steel 

It's made up of people including the homeless they conceal 

The trouble with ruling class financial tactics 

Is that it's the people who need the shelter not their taxes 

Every inch of established land got that way by means of force 

And by paying rent were forced to contribute to that source 

With our communities our people suffer under this establishment 

It's not about housing these are human rights they make us rent 

Only the landlords profit as our lives are sold and bought 

And those who fight this process get evicted from their squat 

So while our leaders carry out these unjust squat evictions 

They prove that freedom can't exist under capitalist conditions 

The trouble with ruling class financial tactics 

Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxes