Aus-Rotten <br />Anarchist Punk Crust Punk Punk Rock Hardcore Punk Anarcho Punk <br />Album The Rotten Agenda 2001 <br />Label Rotten Propaganda Records <br />Lyrics <br /><br />Another vacant building is a tax shelter and nothing more <br />Cemented doors and windows keeping out the poor <br />What purpose does it serve to keep these buildings emply <br />Destroying our community to protect abandoned property <br />Functioning as financial loopholes instead of the housing they could make <br />Because those owning empty buildings claim a generous government tax break <br />So is housing just a luxury to b enjoyed by the upper class <br />Another right you don't deserve if you haven't got the cash <br />The trouble with ruling class financial tactics <br />Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxes <br />Destruciton described as progress evicting people from their shelter <br />Renovating and rebuilding under the guise of making cities better <br />But who does this progress better by putting people in the street <br />Has it benefitted the community when construction is complete <br />Housing is not a privledge, not a luxury but a right <br />communities don't function any better with their problems out of sight <br />Our communities consise of more than concrete, brick and steel <br />It's made up of people including the homeless they conceal <br />The trouble with ruling class financial tactics <br />Is that it's the people who need the shelter not their taxes <br />Every inch of established land got that way by means of force <br />And by paying rent were forced to contribute to that source <br />With our communities our people suffer under this establishment <br />It's not about housing these are human rights they make us rent <br />Only the landlords profit as our lives are sold and bought <br />And those who fight this process get evicted from their squat <br />So while our leaders carry out these unjust squat evictions <br />They prove that freedom can't exist under capitalist conditions <br />The trouble with ruling class financial tactics <br />Is that it's the people who need shelter not their taxes
