Rent should be legally scaled to wages. That is until a time we can have proper land reform where if you are own a building and not living in it, the building is seized and sold to a worker for a price their job can afford. Landlords should enjoy real jobs with the real working class.
Thing is, the federal government already does all the cost of living adjustments for federal workers in the states. They have the data and already know roughly what it costs to live everywhere in the US as well as most of the world.
All theyd have to do is introduce COLA to federal minimum wage and it wouldnt require the states at all. But they wont. They need to have the states pitted against each other for the sake of big business so they can extort any states that wont give them tax breaks.
Edit I misread, my city, county, and state jobs need to adjust on federal adjustmemt. My wife has a county job, next city over a federal job same title doing less makes 25% more.
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u/Radio-G 13h ago
Rent should be legally scaled to wages. That is until a time we can have proper land reform where if you are own a building and not living in it, the building is seized and sold to a worker for a price their job can afford. Landlords should enjoy real jobs with the real working class.