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To: E. Pluribus Unum
She vowed to lower prices at the grocery store with price controls and open up the increasingly out-of-reach housing market with tax subsidies for home buyers.

Price controls? Ah, yes, the leftist solution and recipe to make everything precisely worst. Price controls limit supply and destroy quality. I recall a lecture way back when I took Econ 101 that focused on the old Soviet Union. Prices on goods were typically within reach, however Soviet citizens had to hover around with pockets full of cash, waiting for something (talking food, clothing here) to become available.

What went hand-in-hand with Soviet price controls? If you said rationing and black market, you are correct. But wait, there's more.

How did they try to solve the supply problem? Right again, they cheapened quality to speed up production.

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And, what about housing shortages? Tax credits and subsidies seem like good ideas, don't they?

Ha! Since when did the Feds ever give things away without some social engineering mixed in? Might you suspect that hard-working young couples wanting a new home better have the correct race, gender, and other "DEI" credentials to qualify? And, might you also suspect that progressive federal guidelines regarding codes and permitting might be drawn up in order to overrule local ones are a hidden bonus for the power/control mad left? Don't know, but such things should be spelled out before folks begin voting, eh?

26 posted on 08/18/2024 11:37:47 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Seaplaner

She would never do it but the fastest way to fix the housing problem is to deport all the illegals currently occupying housing.

A 2 birds one stone solution.

Trump should make this point.


33 posted on 08/18/2024 12:11:31 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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