Long ago, we went to a buffet restaurant. As he was eyeing the dessert cart, I asked my son to choose among the nearly 10 different desserts: "What do you want?"
1) Dallas Fed recent study - 30% of home price and rent rise due to Biden's 10/15 million illegal aliens who needed housing. Scott Bessent recently reported as soon as ICE deports the illegals from a given area, rents drop. Democrats want illegal aliens according to article.
2) Wood is the number one raw material building cost- 3X concrete. US harvested 12 billion board feet of lumber 30 years ago but Democrat led Enviro-Fascist movement now limits it to 2 billion while forests burn needlessly as fire control burns prohibited in many cases.
3) Cost of permitting, taxes, impact fees, utility hookups and regulations in Democrat controlled San Francisco to build a home equals median US house price.
Any Democrat running on "affordabilty' is full of $hit including my Communist grandson running for state representative. He is an utter ignoramus who has accomplished nothing and knows nothing. Oh, he will get crushed and I will laugh.
We necessarily have regulated capitalism. That's why we have the Sherman and Clayton Acts. "Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions when the effect "may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly."
Antitrust actions should be conducted on the basis of the most economical size of plant. That is, limit corporations to a size that would achieve minimum unit costs at optimum rates of output. Outlaw the conglomerate and holding companies beyond the first degree, and severely restrict vertical as well as horizontal corporate aggregations. That is to say, prohibit corporations from conducting unrelated activities under a single corporate roof, from expanding in order to broaden their share of the market or from controlling their suppliers through ownership or legal devices.
Of course the enemy is us! All, or virtually all, the questions in the survey[s] ask: Do you want more? Any two year old gives you the right answer!
No one asks: Who is gonna pay for all this? And that's a good thing. For the standard answer will be: Somebody else!
One can indeed say "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves", but the political incentives make it rational to behave this way, and to vote this way.
Speaking with Churchill, "I offer you nothing but budget constraints", doesn't win elections nowadays.
Needs to be more competition in healthcare, I should be able to shop prices for my knee replacement and any other future needs.
Long ago, we went to a buffet restaurant. As he was eyeing the dessert cart, I asked my son to choose among the nearly 10 different desserts: "What do you want?"
His response? "I want too much."
The outcome? He ended up sick to his stomach.
I am struggling with cynicism
this isn't helping
polling is designed to tap into everyone's Reservoir of Stupid
I know I have one
therefore I don't answer polls
Home affordability:
1) Dallas Fed recent study - 30% of home price and rent rise due to Biden's 10/15 million illegal aliens who needed housing. Scott Bessent recently reported as soon as ICE deports the illegals from a given area, rents drop. Democrats want illegal aliens according to article.
2) Wood is the number one raw material building cost- 3X concrete. US harvested 12 billion board feet of lumber 30 years ago but Democrat led Enviro-Fascist movement now limits it to 2 billion while forests burn needlessly as fire control burns prohibited in many cases.
3) Cost of permitting, taxes, impact fees, utility hookups and regulations in Democrat controlled San Francisco to build a home equals median US house price.
Any Democrat running on "affordabilty' is full of $hit including my Communist grandson running for state representative. He is an utter ignoramus who has accomplished nothing and knows nothing. Oh, he will get crushed and I will laugh.
We necessarily have regulated capitalism. That's why we have the Sherman and Clayton Acts. "Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions when the effect "may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly."
Antitrust actions should be conducted on the basis of the most economical size of plant. That is, limit corporations to a size that would achieve minimum unit costs at optimum rates of output. Outlaw the conglomerate and holding companies beyond the first degree, and severely restrict vertical as well as horizontal corporate aggregations. That is to say, prohibit corporations from conducting unrelated activities under a single corporate roof, from expanding in order to broaden their share of the market or from controlling their suppliers through ownership or legal devices.
Of course the enemy is us! All, or virtually all, the questions in the survey[s] ask: Do you want more? Any two year old gives you the right answer!
No one asks: Who is gonna pay for all this? And that's a good thing. For the standard answer will be: Somebody else!
One can indeed say "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves", but the political incentives make it rational to behave this way, and to vote this way.
Speaking with Churchill, "I offer you nothing but budget constraints", doesn't win elections nowadays.