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Bernie Sanders Wants to Impose National Rent Control
Townhall.com ^ | February 2, 2020 | Isabelle Morales

Posted on 02/02/2020 7:01:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: PrincessB

20 million illegals hurts a lot more.


41 posted on 02/02/2020 8:03:11 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: kingu

I have to compete in globalist labor market and it is about time our babied tractor monkeys do the same. F them.


42 posted on 02/02/2020 8:03:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I moved in next to a guy who owned a company that did irrigation piping for a lot of the big growers. He had herds of Mexicans doing work.

He was aghast I actually hired white men and aghast that I actually paid them something. What a cheap bastard.

Steve Forbes came here right after Trump was elected sniveling on television about the Bracero program. Another cheap bastard.


43 posted on 02/02/2020 8:10:06 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: Clarence The One Eyed Lion

Don’t disagree. But being a multi unit owner and a good landlord does not make you a bottom feeder.

Back when I was a young investor, during the “Masters of the Universe” phase, it was THE way to become a millionaire in 10 years.

And no one got hurt.


44 posted on 02/02/2020 8:11:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

In terms of much money I have, you’re a bottom feeder.


45 posted on 02/02/2020 8:14:11 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: Clarence The One Eyed Lion; kingu

A factory worker, a college professional and a small business going under to cheap foreign legal and illegal trafficking of humans and goods is just as tragic as a farmer losing his farm to debt and foreign competition. It’s brutal dog eat dog globalist world that the Globalist Republicans created so GET OVER IT FARMERS.


46 posted on 02/02/2020 8:15:11 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I actually hire white men and I pay them.

That’s what it actually boils down to.


47 posted on 02/02/2020 8:15:50 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: Kaslin; All
These radical commies like Bernie are so ignorant of economics that they don't know what they are talking about.

Imposing rent controls will only accomplish one thing. It will eliminate available units for rent. The number of rentals available will dry up.

Owners and landlords will simple not rent their units or sell them off.

Happens every single time the government tries to control the price of a commodity in the economy.

48 posted on 02/02/2020 8:24:57 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Kaslin

What about the millions of leases in effect that have terms about rent increases? Change one item, nullify the lease?


49 posted on 02/02/2020 8:29:49 AM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: Kaslin; All
When the state of Hawaii imposed price controls on gasoline some years back, it was abandoned within months because the supply of gasoline dried up as a result.

They figured out that lower prices of non-existent gasoline wasn't the solution.

There's a bunch of radical Leftists running that state as well.

50 posted on 02/02/2020 8:36:53 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

They figured out that lower prices of non-existent gasoline wasn’t the solution.

There’s a bunch of radical Leftists running that state as well.
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That ‘smells’ of the old Soviet...

We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.


51 posted on 02/02/2020 8:42:16 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Kaslin

The utopia party are the 3T party talk taxes troubles but never answers they can produce.


52 posted on 02/02/2020 9:11:43 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

When I read this I hear Frank Sinatra singing, “Fly Me to the Moon.” Soothing......


53 posted on 02/02/2020 9:20:07 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: HotHunt

Happens every single time the government tries to control the price of labor with illegal aliens in the economy.


54 posted on 02/02/2020 9:21:26 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: kingu

How many illegal do the property management companies employ to do the maintenance in Santa Monica?


55 posted on 02/02/2020 9:24:42 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: StormEye

Don’t worry about Venezuela, there are millions of refugees the RINOS and Democrats are salivating over for cheap labor.


56 posted on 02/02/2020 9:26:26 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: HotHunt

California has price controls on labor, it’s called illegal aliens in plain English . . .

And in even plainer English the big growers demand local governments subsidize farm worker housing for their illegal labor.


57 posted on 02/02/2020 9:29:02 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: Clarence The One Eyed Lion
...Most rental owners are bottom feeding scums.

Property management companies are bottom feeding scums.

Go ahead, expound on this some more. My belief is that people who hate rental owners are lazy, good-for-nothing deadbeats.

I worked hard to earn the money I used to buy my rentals. I saved up and when there was a dip in the housing market DW and I would spend months looking for a good property. Priced right, just the right kind of disrepair that we could fix ourselves with lots of "sweat equity", and a motivated seller. But also in a basically decent neighborhood that might even have appreciation potential over the long haul.

Neighbors loved us because we took an eyesore property right next to them and make it look good. They didn't like that we were going to rent it -- no one does. But when the housing market is in the doldrums and the distressed property next to you is vacant and going downhill, sometimes that is a better choice than anything else on the table.

Owning rentals is a business that we started up and ran successfully. If someone doesn't like my prices or the service I provide, they are free to go elsewhere. And I don't rent to people with your attitude. If you don't like that, earn your own down payment and buy your own house.

When someone doesn't like my rental policies, prices, or rules they don't ever seem to see the decades of work, and business choices that led to success. But they are always 100% in favor of the government taking the result of that work away from me and redistributing it to them.

If you really want to see a housing crisis, go ahead and get rid of all the landlords.

58 posted on 02/02/2020 9:34:25 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave

I have more money than you do . . . You’re a bottom feeder.

I can hire nice white people to work for me.

20 million illegal aliens are causing a housing crisis.

I’m sure your wetback labor works hard too.


59 posted on 02/02/2020 9:40:36 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: headstamp 2
The Democrats need to be called what they are, the anti-freedom party.

COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA.


60 posted on 02/02/2020 9:42:36 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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