Rent control fossilizes cities. Walk into a Manhattan restaurant that has held a lease since 1998, and you are standing inside a subsidized artifact: the menu prices reflect 2026 ingredients, the labor costs reflect 2026 wages, but the rent reflects a political decision made during the Clinton administration. The landlord absorbs the loss. The tenant captures the gain. New entrants pay full market rent and compete against operators whose fixed costs are permanently suppressed by law. San Francisco tells exactly the same story; the only difference is that its residents eat sourdough. Stockholm, which introduced residential rent control in 1942 and never seriously dismantled it, now runs a housing queue where the average wait for a centrally located apartment is 20 years. The price signal that would normally tell a developer "build here, profit awaits" gets strangled before it forms. Prices carry information no regulator possesses: local demand, opportunity costs, the specific knowledge of thousands of individual actors who know their own neighborhoods, kitchens, and margins. When the city council of New York sets a ceiling, it destroys that signal and replaces it with a compassionate guess. The visible result is a restaurant district where connected incumbents survive and ambitious newcomers cannot afford to enter. You pay more for worse food because the efficient competitor who would have replaced the underperformer never got a storefront. The beneficiary is whoever signed the lease first, and the mechanism rewarding them is coercion.

Elizabeth Warren want to fleece the rich now because Social Security is going broke claiming they should pay their fair share when you are supposed to get back what you paid in. All propaganda. The more wars, the higher the debt, the higher the debt, the higher the taxes. It is a endless cycle that leads to bankruptcy. I guess America will reap what it has sown for not stopping endless wars.

Over 50% of Democrats want sanctions on Russia and endless war funding for Ukraine no matter what it does to the National Debt and then they will demand higher taxes and wealth taxes.