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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 23:53:31 JST Bread up, Bro
   notice people using "price controls" without a care of what it actually means in a literal economic sense.
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     Groomschild (groomschild@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:31:49 JST Groomschild

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     @sickburnbro Price control should only be used for outright price abuses like medical bills and car repairs

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:31:49 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Groomschild in economics "price controls" is when you say "the price of this object is X or cannot exceed Y"
     
     There are already percentage caps on payday loans, as an example.
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     Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:35:11 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     There are also already federally defined usury rates. This wouldn't really be too different from those.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:35:11 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @doctorsex @Groomschild right. The point I'm trying to make is that everyone agrees that regulations have costs. The whole point of having a definition of a special set - "price controls" is that those are the ones that have been shown to just not do what you ever hope.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:52:44 JST EvilSandmich

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @VIcFury @sickburnbro @doctorsex @Groomschild Another case of burying the lede:
     >Landlords are put off by agency red tape and things like mandatory inspections to make sure a property is safe.
     
     I had a buddy who ran a Section 8 house for a relative (note the case, he said "never again") and the government would stop by and demand all kind of upgrades if he wanted to get paid. He said the house was nicer than his own when he was done (but of course it didn't stop the renter from trashing it).
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     VIc FooReeee (vicfury@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 00:52:45 JST VIc FooReeee

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     @sickburnbro @doctorsex @Groomschild In a major shift, the U.S. government explores giving renters cash, not vouchers https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23570/renters-cash-vouchers-u-s-housing-apartments-hud-federal