It’s rent, actually
Reposted from
The American Prospect
What's causing the gap between voters' perceptions of how the economy is doing and reality? It might be the content they're consuming online.
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and the realization you will never own a house and will therefore be exposed to the brutal vagaries of landlords and interest rates for the rest of your life. while billionaires thrive, and no one thinks that's bad policy at all.
And a rising HOA fee, for me, but that's not everyone, I imagine.
Fucking HOAs.
What need policies that punish landlords.
"Yes I will admit that everything costs too much and rent is really high but gee the kids really seem to be watching a lot of depressing stuff on TikTok about the economy. Let me throw in a few more vastly outdated references aaaand done!"
Tried.
To.
Warn.
Us.
The Dems' plan to deal with it is higher wages, lower inflation, bringing health care/college costs down.
The GOP plan it is to ban math books for being too 'woke' and punish Trump's enemies.
So why is this only ever presented as a problem for the Dems?
Which was happening before the pandemic, but got much worse with inflation.
But rent, and all of the things that can only be rented now.
I look at everywhere, eventually (moving my license is not THAT hard, or I can just continue to practice telemed for Colorado only). Minneapolis/St Paul still looks okay-ish, and parts of Chicagoland, and… that’s about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party