The government does not have the right to control (set) rents, salaries or prices.
The government does not have the right to control (set) rents, salaries or prices.
One problem is that since our government deliberately understates inflation (to reduce SS payments while hiding the disastrous extent of the economy), few people can afford to retire anymore. Here in the northeast, as people are forced to sell their homes upon retirement, you lose the natural neighborhood balance and end up with a situation where every home has schoolchildren in it (a tremendous cost to the municipality). People without children avoid buying homes and retain the freedom to flee high taxes and rents; to compensate school taxes would have to rise to $20K per home (and that is impossible to collect with our current McJob economy).