Rent control is an unconstitutional taking of private property by government. Would be like mandating a salary cap for all residents. It's wrong, and just because selfish people have mobilized to keep it for decades in NYC, doesn't make it right.
Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out.
And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins.
Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year.
But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community.
The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.
Bryce Harper wants people to know it was his ring finger that he flashed at Nationals fans who were chirping him all week
"It's weird coming from a fanbase that I sweated for for seven years."
It’s complete chaos today. We drove to Burlington, VT to pick up a rental car but even though we had reserved one they had no cars available (until Sunday). My travel buddy now continues driving to Montreal to drop off our Canadian rental car and I’m staying here to try get a car from one of the other rental companies in the city tomorrow who were already closed now.
Ana Navarro: “[Vice President JD Vance] also came in… strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness. He came in being affable and laughing easily and being very nice. I mean, it worked on you, [Joy]. Didn't work on me.”
Sunny Hostin: “It didn’t work on me either!”
Joy Behar: “It did not work on me, Ana!. It did not. I respect the office. I'm a civilized human being. When someone comes on my show then you treat them like a human being.”
Following a consultation with Dr. Keith Meister today, RHP Spencer Strider will be shut down from throwing for four weeks and then undergo a follow-up MRI. Provided that scan is clear, he will then begin a throwing progression.
Cute theory, let's play it out.
A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.
But... oh wait, there is no pile.
It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.
The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.
Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.
The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.
But it gets worse.
Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.
Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.
So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.
So the monkeys sit there.
No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.
Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.
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And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.