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Old 04-16-2024, 11:55 AM   #11781
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I could go on and on. But again, if someone has a better idea than Government owned and operated housing I am all ears.

Because if you subsidize cheap, low-income housing, wealthier people will buy it for cheap and rent it out for more. There has to be a water-break that prevents that from happening and theres only 1 institution that can do it.
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I definitely agree that there are certain areas where the governments need to be operators for the public good. Some level of public housing needs to be provided and in other areas I think that the governments should be operating our airports and our telecom infrastructure as well as our power grids and probably even things like pipeline infrastructure and refineries and such.
Strangers with this kind of socialist talk make me go a big rubbery one, if you know what I mean.
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