How much will magical thinking accomplish?
Evil criminals drive costs up as does lack of competition and BIG GOVERNMENT.
Government needs to stop playing Santa Clause. It’s the free stuff that’s making stuff unaffordable. Try to splain that to the gimmedats.
Tens of illegals have simultaneously driven the price of housing up and the pay for basic work down.
Expelling them is the only feasible way of reversing this.
Democrats are why everything is expensive. Homes, cars, energy, food EVERYTHING. It can all be laid at their feet for their policies. DEMOCRATS!
The money printer goes brrrrrr.....
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Those who want things to be “free” should move to Cuba.
Government involvement got us into this mess. It won’t get us out. De-regulation is the answer.
Because youth are frivolous spenders.
There’s nothing left after Uber Eats delivers your 37th $27.95 Avocado Toast this month.
I have been around long enough to know that RAT admins always drive up inflation and make life unaffordable for the middle class. The democrats always claim they are champions of the middle class. That is one of their big lies.
I imagine there are others around here that remember Obama proudly saying Joe Biden was his czar for the middle class. Even set a website. What a joke. Nothing ever happened on that website because it was all bogus.
The democrats always make life unaffordable and when it gets really bad, a republican gets voted in because people are feeling the pain.
The messes made by the democrats are always hard to fix and have taken time to bring about corrections. Because of that, if the corrections don’t happen over night, people forget who actually started the problems and the republican gets the blame.
As a result, the gullible fools listen to the media democrat lies and the whole cycle repeats itself. They run out and vote for democrats.
I think the damage to the economy, particularly in the last 5 years, has been so great that it can’t be fixed in any conventional manner. Hence, calling for 50 year mortgages. That is not anymore home ownership than a 30 year mortgage.
People want food prices down. I can’t remember food prices or rents ever going back down after rising like they have.
Problem is, people don’t make enough to afford it all.
This was the plan to bring the communism into America. Pretending it ain’t so won’t change it.
There’s one change that will make the cost of EVERYTHING go down.
Tort reform, federal law, LOSER PAYS. Every business in the country (especially the medical industry) is choking on liability costs because of Death By A Thousand Cuts from all the ambulance-chasing attorneys.
Enact Loser Pays and 90% of all the nuisance lawsuits will dry up, and (maybe best of all) 90% of the ambulance-chasing personal injury commercials will disappear from TV and radio.
“Mamdani and the Democrat party have effectively defined a binary choice: Should government or “the market” control affordability?”
Many Republicans believe the same unfortunately.
The author thinks the facts matter.
That’s about as dumb as it gets.
Bkmk
Ignorant headline. Unlimited needs versus limited resources is the way of life. Price is the mechanism that balances the two. Housing? It is still possible in many cities to buy a 1200 sq ft house for less than $150k. Cars used sub $10k. Food? As cheap as you wish to eat.
This country is a cheap place to live.
Things are unaffordable because we are ruled by thieves.
The reason things cost more is that your money has less value, not because the items are less valuable.
Since the nation created the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking, the value of your 1913 dollar has decreased by over 96%. That means the steak your dollar bought in 1913 will now cost $32; the steak did not grow in value; your money decreased in value.
Why? Well, don’t expect a commie to answer. Supply&Demand. Demand is corrupted by imported DNC “voters”, 20M illegals and 50M visa holders.
Get rid of them and all prices will crash. It really is all that simple, but commies will not go there.
They’re unaffordable because of currency debasement.
Medical costs: more, and more expensive treatments. A smoker with lung cancer in 1965 was often written off, especially if over 60. Ongoing diabetes treatment costs are up as more have diabetes, etc. New procedures covered by insurance raise costs for everyone (e.g. IVF, trans-whatever)
Housing costs: Zoning, environmental fees, minimum sizes, mandated enhancements due to newer building codes (e.g. GFC, mandated insulation, ADA compliance for small businesses.
Higher Education: Funding of research means teachers spend less time teaching and more in research. Flow of loan dollars were spent to compete based on amenities (dorms, food, recreation) rather than price. A variety of forces have led to more and more administrators. The administrator to teacher ratio was about 10:1 in 1965, but is closer to 3:1 today.