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RE: Technology Breaks, Housing Costs, Aging Populations and Falling Incomes
how MUCH of the high cost of living where you are is due to government regulation? Zoning comes to mind.
some time ago a snowflake wrote a letter to the editor of one of the newspapers here.
She complained about the high cost of living. She complained that it wasn't fair. She lamented that she was a GOOD citizen..she voted FOR all the bonds, and the tax increases to improve the infrastructure. She whined that NOW her taxes had gone up so much that she couldn't afford to live in her small 'bungalow' downtown..the property taxes were outrageous.
I searched for it just now but couldn't find it. At the time I thought that it was ironic.
(I'm being polite)
A mixture of zoning and corporate assflake greed (I'm also being polite)...
Like the electric utility encouraging everyone to install low consumption appliances and LED bulbs and stuff to conserve energy. As a result, they sell less energy. But instead of celebrating that they succeeded at what they set out to do... and now would be able to naturally downsize to be a smaller organization, they hike their rates to not only keep the same number of people, but to give raises as well. WTF?
We have a lot of snowflakes around here, too... they are always "demanding" things, but are never willing to foot the bill.