Legal War Over NYC Rent Regulations

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 6, 2012 | Wall Street Journal staff

[Navy Patriot]

You seem to have trouble distinguishing "regulated" from "prohibited".

I did not use "prohibit" in any of my responses.

In fact, the state may regulate abortion and the liberty of infected individuals.

I simply stated that you used poor examples by selecting serious human rights issues over property rights issues that would more clearly illustrate the rent control canard.

The government has a compelling interest in "to promote the general welfare" when the Nation's lives and health are in fact, seriously at risk, as opposed to the leftist usage of the same Constitutional charge, in fiction.

[nathanbedford]

Look, if you're going to take someone to task for using inappropriate examples you ought to have at least the ability to put forward with lucidity a comprehensible constitutional understanding without misstating the "tested" law so egregiously.

[Navy Patriot]

See page six.

Federal and State Quarantine and Isolation Authority

[count-your-change]

The state, in this case N.Y., might easily take the position that regulating rents is in the interests of the state and that protecting one group's constitutional rights in conflict with another’s is the only way to protect the state's interest.

But let's not misunderstand. The first goal of the state is protection from the citizenry not protection of the citizenry.