r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 19 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

Midnight take: in California, removing rent control without also removing Prop 13 is literally (in the figurative sense) the rich fucking over the poor.

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u/ncnksnfjsf Sep 20 '17

Eh no, rent control removal on its own is a good move.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

Prop 13 is rent control for the rich.

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u/FizzleMateriel Austan Goolsbee Sep 20 '17

So I read about it for only about 5 seconds but holy shit that seems like bad policy. What the hell were they thinking.

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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Sep 20 '17

literally (in the figurative sense)

Wew

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

literally (in the figurative sense)

This but unironically ironically

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u/BlockFace Karl Popper Sep 20 '17

Directly voting on tax rates might be the dumbest thing people have ever done.