Bernie Sanders Wants to Impose National
Rent Control
Townhall,
by
Isabelle Morales
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
2/2/2020 10:03:48 PM
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to impose national rent control. He unveiled the policy proposal last September and recently reiterated his support via Twitter.
Sanders proposes a national cap on annual rent increases to 1.5 times the rate of inflation or 3 percent—whichever is higher.
Ironically, the article Sanders tweeted out attributes increasing rent prices, in part, to government control over the private housing market. This irony reinforces what many economists already know to be true: the left’s prescriptions for lowering housing prices are precisely what keeps prices high and supply low.
Rent control would be a flagrant infringement of American property rights
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/2/2020 10:22:25 PM (No. 305442)
There is nothing he would not try to get the government to control tax or regulate. Venezuela Bernie. Venezuela.
They need you. Go. Be happy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/2/2020 10:24:08 PM (No. 305443)
Has Breadline Bernie ever held a real job?
Who hosted the honeymooners when they visited Moscow?
10 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 2/2/2020 10:32:20 PM (No. 305454)
just his backhanded way of killing all landlords..
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/2/2020 10:36:05 PM (No. 305458)
Government controlled apartments supplied by government produced electricity. Anything else Einstein?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FormerDem 2/2/2020 10:37:42 PM (No. 305463)
I used to be for rent control until I realized cities with rent control is where the homeless people are. Since then I am not for rent control and I can't understand why anyone is. It sounds good but it ends up with people on the street so let's NOT do it.
6 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bobn.t 2/2/2020 10:38:15 PM (No. 305464)
Socialist through and through.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 2/2/2020 10:42:10 PM (No. 305469)
Piker - he should just declare free rent for everybody.
s/ - do I need to?
3 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 2/2/2020 10:45:48 PM (No. 305476)
A dangerous Commie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Anaverageguy 2/2/2020 10:51:38 PM (No. 305483)
In November America will impose Bernie Sander controls....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 2/2/2020 11:06:26 PM (No. 305500)
I live in an apt. The rent has gone up twice in 8 years. But, I have new windows and a new sliding door. A new roof has been put on the building. The parking lot has a new coat of blacktop. The lawn is mowed frequently. The landlady pays the snow plow people more money so they will plow our place sooner rather than later. The exterminator checks each apt every 3 months.
Upkeep will suffer if the owners are not able to bring in enough rent to cover expenses.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DustDevil31 2/2/2020 11:11:06 PM (No. 305504)
Full frontal communist. Sounds like a winning strategy Bern.
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This putz should live in Cuba and stop tormenting US.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/2/2020 11:46:21 PM (No. 305540)
Do an internet search on Soviet-style Apartment Buildings and you'll see what Bernie has in mind for us all.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/3/2020 12:36:35 AM (No. 305573)
It's called pandering to the freebee crowd for a vote.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sgt ski 2/3/2020 12:54:20 AM (No. 305587)
these bernie outbursts leave me wanting the good old days of uncle joe .... chairman mao... el presidente and several more ruthless tyrants that murdered countless millions of their countrymen.... they at least we're made for grinding their fellow humans into grease spots --- bernski is incapable of being that inhuman.... he's just a money grubbing carpetbagger ..... now some of his younger proteges and strap-hangers..... they might mature into real monsters if allowed .....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Butch 2/3/2020 12:59:00 AM (No. 305588)
Bernie Sanders is NOT a Socialist; he´s a Communist commissar-in-waiting, ready and waiting with LOTS of violent thugs to back him up in the streets. And there will be street brawls, and even mass slaughter and civil war if he wins.
I´m no Alex Baldwin, but if Bernie Sanders wins, I really will surrender my passport to the country I love. It would half-kill me, but nations have standards as do their citizens, and a Communist America wouldn´t, and couldn´t possibly, make the grade. I would´t live any a Communist nation if you pointed a revolver to my head --which is entirely possible given the Bolshevik playbook.
Bernie Sanders is a truly dangerous man, mainly because so many ill-educated Americans (mostly young hipsters) think he´s cool. Think about that as you´re being led to one of America´s new Lubyanka-style execution cellars. He´s dangerous because he means what he says. There´s certainly value in being truthful about one´s intentions, but everything about this Bolshevik who honeymooned in the USSR, and then went on to get rich on the public dime, along with his corrupt and incompetent wife, gives me the creeps. Is a large percentage of Americans really willing to vote for a dyed-in-the-wool Communist as president?!?
Rent control would only the first abuse. It could get far, far worse. Maybe National Review would even write a "Never Bernie" edition, but I wouldn´t count on it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rtwngprof 2/3/2020 1:36:08 AM (No. 305604)
What enumerated Constitutional power does he think the federal government has that would give them any say in rent prices? Of course, lack of federal authority never stops Washington.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 2/3/2020 8:18:02 AM (No. 305763)
We know what happens with rent control. A major shortage of housing!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 2/3/2020 8:30:15 AM (No. 305781)
Price controls cause shortages.Didn’t we learn that with the gas lines in the 1970s? Or in NYC, where rent control makes rents artificially high when an apartment actually comes on the market. I guess the Soviet Union, where everyone was poor except Party elites doesn’t faze Bernie, because he is one of the pigs that are more equal than other pigs.
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After your reeducation in the gulag, you will gladly turn over the title of your apartment building to the government, because they know best how to use this asset.
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