Kamala's Housing Plan Will Make Housing Even More Expensivemises.org/mises-wire/kamalas-housing-plan-will-make-housing-even-more-expensive
268 sats \ 36 comments \ @Undisciplined 30 Aug econ
By Artis Shepherd
The recent “housing” plan from the Kamala Harris campaign is being touted in the media as a “solution” for this nation's housing problems. However, the plan, if implemented, will be like trying to quench a fire by pouring gasoline on it.
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127 sats \ 28 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Aug
Remember: not even in the most merciless and inhumane dictatorships public opinion ceases to be the major leading force. Stalin himself refrained from many actions just to avoid negative impact in public opinion, and took others just for the sake of getting positive public opinion.
That means that this kind of public stances are taken only and if only a big enough percentile of the population already agrees, and if most part the voters they already have remain either indifferent or accept it as a trade-off for the sake of other things they consider more important.
That leads us to the sad core source of the problem which is much, much worse than Kamala saying this, but the reason why she says it: enough people already believe this so to make it politically profitable to offer it.
It will take decades to reverse this cultural problem. We hope Argentina will serve as an example in the long term.
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20 sats \ 27 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Aug
at least 33% of voters like policies such as price control and housing subsidies
They believe housing is a "right"/entitlement
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21 sats \ 26 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Aug
Talking to only above 10% of the entire voter-base is enough to make a speech politically profitable. 33% makes it mandatory. Kamala is going to win big time, no rigging needed.
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0 sats \ 25 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Aug
Kamala cannot win without rigging especially in Pennsylvania where fracking is a big industry
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21 sats \ 24 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Aug
She is a woman, that assures her 50% of the voter-base right away. She needs only one more vote, and there's plenty. She looks either black or latina depending on the angle. And there are too many soyboys buying socialist shit. Not only she will win but it will do so by landslide. She can easily reach 60%
Ask any woman you know what other womans plan to vote. You will find almost 100% fidelity towards Kamala. It's so bad that all major libertarian woman on X are slamming the 19th Amendment. That speaks volumes on how serious the issue is.
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21 sats \ 21 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Aug
Trump has won with married women in both of his campaigns. Kamala will dominate with unmarried women, though.
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21 sats \ 20 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Aug
Trump didn't had a woman in from of him prior. The recent economic crisis must have negatively impacted the rate of new couples forming due to economic constraints to form a family, plus all the new generation of woman indoctrinated in woke ideology and still unmarried. And we are not counting democrat couples. It's to much weight on favour of Kamala.
I'm of course not talking about what I want to happen but about what I calculate will happen. Numbers are on favour of Kamala. It's terrifying.
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21 sats \ 17 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Aug
You know that the only election he's ever won was against a woman right?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 31 Aug
She has to pretend to be a moderate. Will voters believe her transformation?
Most importantly will voters in Pennsylvania believe her when she says she will not ban fracking
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 31 Aug
If women didn’t vote, the world would be a better place
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 1 Sep
I think it's strongly cultural. Here in Argentina Milei haves nearly unanimous support from teenage girls and up. He only starts to reach 50%-50% once the 30 year-old mark is passed, and he is despised by older women unanimously. But that's an absolute win, the loyalty of the youth is assured. I would say our experience was balanced. Younger girls were determinant in assuring Milei's victory, but older women almost send us straight into the socialist abyss. I'm confident this new generation of girls will underpin a new tendency among women.
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105 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 30 Aug
People don't seem to understand you can't possibly build houses as quickly as you can print money. Even if you had a wonderful plan to fast track building of millions of new homes it won't keep up with pace of the printer.
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126 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 30 Aug
Most of these plans would be abandoned if the public gave them even the most cursory thought.
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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 30 Aug
Yep, 100%.
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165 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 30 Aug
Putting out a fire with gas always seems to be the preferred solution from the government.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 30 Aug
Ain't that the truth.
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28 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 30 Aug
Kamala Harris announced her proposed housing plan last week. The policy will be expensive – perhaps as much as $500 billion - and will do much less to facilitate home ownership than it could, because it does not address the most important reason why housing is expensive: high construction costs. Instead, the plan significantly subsidizes housing demand, which will put upward pressure on housing costs.
https://www.hoover.org/research/unpleasant-arithmetic-kamala-harriss-housing-plan
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT 30 Aug
They never tire of trying to put out the fire with fuel.
There is no money, print more money.
Inflammation to the ceiling, more expensive houses, solution let's build more houses even if the costs to build them are high, which means that the houses will be more expensive.
It is a succession of stupidities one after the other.
I have seen only one government that in 2 terms of office has solved the economic and social problems of its population: El Salvador. WHY IS THAT?
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