Are rent-controlled appartments the evilest thing ever?

[Dinner]

It results in misallocation of resources but I wouldn't call it necessarily evil.

[giblets]

gribbler
you can decide whats fair but we can talk about sins like greed envy and taking advantage of the poor

We could talk about how a policy that makes some poor pay lower rents and other poor pay higher rents is supposed to be the best policy for helping the poor afford their rent.

[Kidlicious]

Bull**** whoever charges the rent is responsible for that

[giblets]

Bull**** whoever charges the rent is responsible for that

Regardless of who you decide to blame, if your policy for helping the poor afford their rent is followed by an increase in the market rent there might be something wrong with that policy.

[KrazyHorse]

Felch,
You're like a lunitic. Of course i wouldn't do those things. A good person knows what he should do and doesn't make excuses for himself like saying that's what everyone else doe. Be a self, not a herd animal.

You may be the stupidest person on poly.

[KrazyHorse]

Bull**** whoever charges the rent is responsible for that

[KrazyHorse]

It results in misallocation of resources but I wouldn't call it necessarily evil.

It is a blend of stupidity and evil. There are those whose entire thought process consists of "let's help out poor people by stopping their landlords from charging them so much rent!". These people are stupid. Then there are those (the inhabitants of rent-controlled apartments, lawyers working on rent control cases, bureaucrats charged with enforcing rent-control laws, landlords of buildings not covered by rent control) who form an interest group which benefits from rent control at the expense of everybody else in society and of the common weal. These people are evil.

It is a classic example of bootleggers and baptists...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

History is littered with examples of the enormous damage price controls do, and how quickly the supposed benefits are dispersed. I have yet to see an example of price controls doing good, with the quasi-caveat of monetary policy.

[KrazyHorse]

Only greedy people wont work unless they get paid enough

Let us all marvel at this. Aren't you the person who became an accountant because accountants get paid more than schoolteachers?

[Donegeal]

I'm a landlord. I haven't raised rent in ten years. Hell, I've actually lowered rent for my house. It was $960/mo and I lowered it to 850/mo about 2 years ago because of the tennents job situation.

[Fake Boris]

It is a blend of stupidity and evil. There are those whose entire thought process consists of "let's help out poor people by stopping their landlords from charging them so much rent!". These people are stupid. Then there are those (the inhabitants of rent-controlled apartments, lawyers working on rent control cases, bureaucrats charged with enforcing rent-control laws, landlords of buildings not covered by rent control) who form an interest group which benefits from rent control at the expense of everybody else in society and of the common weal. These people are evil.

It is a classic example of bootleggers and baptists...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

History is littered with examples of the enormous damage price controls do, and how quickly the supposed benefits are dispersed. I have yet to see an example of price controls doing good, with the quasi-caveat of monetary policy.

Salaried vs wage doctors.

[KrazyHorse]

WTF are you talking about?

[Kidlicious]

The government has the authority, so no evil, but people thinkin they're entitled to **** is evil.

[Felch]

Then there are those (the inhabitants of rent-controlled apartments, lawyers working on rent control cases, bureaucrats charged with enforcing rent-control laws, landlords of buildings not covered by rent control) who form an interest group which benefits from rent control at the expense of everybody else in society and of the common weal. These people are evil.

It's classic rent-seeking behavior.

[Felch]

The government has the authority, so no evil, but people thinkin they're entitled to **** is evil.

I couldn't agree more.

[Kuciwalker]

It's classic rent-seeking behavior.

The landlords are the real rent-seekers