Author Topic: 2024 Presidential Race (Read 171539 times)

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #750 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:13:54 AM »

Quote from: Pete on July 18, 2024, 09:45:42 AM

This 5% rent cap suggestion from Biden seems like political pandering and obviously something the courts would stop.

Also seems foolish because why the eff would developers build more housing if rents were artificially limited by government intervention. Don’t we need more housing?

It's the dumbest thing he has suggested in his entire presidency.

wetwillie · « **Reply #751 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:14:39 AM »

Polls are still pretty tight with a slight Trump edge it looks like

michigancat · « **Reply #752 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:23:18 AM »

Quote from: Pete on July 18, 2024, 09:45:42 AM

This 5% rent cap suggestion from Biden seems like political pandering and obviously something the courts would stop.

Also seems foolish because why the eff would developers build more housing if rents were artificially limited by government intervention. Don’t we need more housing?

Fwiw

https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1677034814921388033

wetwillie · « **Reply #753 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:25:50 AM »

So Cali isn't rent controlling buildings until they hit year 15?

Pete · « **Reply #754 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:30:10 AM »

That’s better than on ALL properties, but still seems like an issue for municipalities and not the federal government.

Pete · « **Reply #755 on:** July 18, 2024, 10:32:23 AM »

A good FEDERAL effort to investigate is incentivizing supply of housing.

CNS · « **Reply #756 on:** July 18, 2024, 11:39:40 AM »

I read something a few weeks ago that Biden said they were investigating options on a program that would subsidize interest rates for first time home buyers.

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #757 on:** July 18, 2024, 11:54:39 AM »

They need to incentivize better zoning laws, cut all tariffs on raw building materials to zero, and loosen work permit requirements.

kim carnes · « **Reply #758 on:** July 18, 2024, 12:25:15 PM »

Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on July 18, 2024, 11:54:39 AM

They need to incentivize better zoning laws, cut all tariffs on raw building materials to zero, and loosen work permit requirements.

Zoning laws exist for a reason (and that reason isn’t some conspiracy to increase housing costs)

Institutional Control · « **Reply #759 on:** July 18, 2024, 12:39:38 PM »

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Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #760 on:** July 18, 2024, 12:43:00 PM »

Quote from: Pete on July 18, 2024, 09:45:42 AM

This 5% rent cap suggestion from Biden seems like political pandering and obviously something the courts would stop.

Also seems foolish because why the eff would developers build more housing if rents were artificially limited by government intervention. Don’t we need more housing?

Agree that this is stupid pandering. Has Biden heard of the three branches of government? Federal policy regarding national rent controls would need to come from a bill in Congress, not an executive edict, correct?

CNS · « **Reply #761 on:** July 18, 2024, 12:54:37 PM »

Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on July 18, 2024, 11:54:39 AM

They need to incentivize better zoning laws, cut all tariffs on raw building materials to zero, and loosen work permit requirements.

Right now, Trumps platform includes a min tariff on all imported goods of something like 10%, and a tariff on all Chinese goods of something like 60%. This will do the opposite.

Pete · « **Reply #762 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:17:41 PM »

That seems like the opposite of fighting inflation.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #763 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:23:25 PM »

Mass deportations should help housing supply

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #764 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:25:32 PM »

Quote from: star seed 7 on July 18, 2024, 01:23:25 PM

Mass deportations should help housing supply

Should help with prices at the grocery store, also (without all those immigrants buying all our food).

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #765 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:27:49 PM »

#blueanon is always going to stand tall with the cartels and the traffickers.

I think that this needs to be hammered on repeatedly by the Pubs.

yoga-like_abana · « **Reply #766 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:36:57 PM »

Quote from: wetwillie on July 18, 2024, 10:14:39 AM

Polls are still pretty tight with a slight Trump edge it looks like

Within ear shot that's for sure.

MadCat · « **Reply #767 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:55:22 PM »

CNS · « **Reply #768 on:** July 18, 2024, 01:55:49 PM »

I heard an interview with one of the GOP consultants that helped pen the Labor chapter of Project 2025(Ezra Klein interview earlier this week), and he noted that tariffs are "also revenue and a tax". He didn't fully come out and say it, but it sounds like an end around to get closer to the flat tax that GOP'ers and Libertarians want. If you tariff everything, then those who consume most or all of their paycheck for consumable goods will be effectively paying that tax.

chum1 · « **Reply #769 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:23:51 PM »

https://x.com/axios/status/1813943622863143080

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #770 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:25:19 PM »

Quote from: chum1 on July 18, 2024, 02:23:51 PM

https://x.com/axios/status/1813943622863143080

Obama ready to put Sleepy Joe out to pasture:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1qdSr4

Edit: is there any potential replacement who could a) manage to get nominated by the dems and b) win a general election
I nominate Laura Kelly.

Brock Landers · « **Reply #771 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:27:41 PM »

Yeah, if it's true about what Obama is saying then Joe is cooked.

wetwillie · « **Reply #772 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:30:44 PM »

Who's coming in to pinch hit?

star seed 7 · « **Reply #773 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:34:31 PM »

Harris/Shapiro

chum1 · « **Reply #774 on:** July 18, 2024, 02:35:30 PM »

I kinda feel like it would have to be Kamala. Like, at least voters knew she would be Biden's successor if something happened to him.