People sometimes ask me how I’ve managed to write a column every single day since November 2009.
Sadly, the answer has a lot to do with politicians having a vote-buying and power-grabbing incentive to produce a never-ending supply of bad policies.
Consider what just happened in Oregon.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed into law a first-in-the-nation rent control bill Thursday…Senate Bill 608′s rent control and
eviction protections go into effect immediately. …The law caps annual rent increases to 7 percent plus inflation throughout the state, which amounts to a limit of just over 10 percent this year. …The bill passed quickly through the House and Senate amid a Democratic supermajority.
This is spectacularly bad policy.
- My first reaction is that such laws should be unconstitutional since politicians are violating a provision of the Bill of Rights
by taking part of the value of private property without compensation. - My second…
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