Comment by tjwebbnorfolk
3 days ago
I don't know if you've noticed, but politicians aren't in the business of root-cause analysis or actual solutions. They are in the business of making things either slightly better or significantly worse for certain people.
This would make the situation slightly better for people who want to buy houses.
Perhaps it's the case I'm 100% for this mainly because my extremely low expectations for politicians have been met and exceeded in this circumstance.
I don't know why we have to be negative about something that makes a small improvement in something that sucks.
I have to admit, I'm very used to politicians tossing out non-fixes as a distraction when there's some problem, but your comment is the first case I've ever seen of a voter openly acknowledging that it's a non-fix, but being happy about it anyway. And not just that, but actually attacking the people pointing out that it's a non-fix, and casting sinister aspersions on their motives.
This isn't even shooting the messenger or the guy pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, I'm not sure there's an existing idiom for the thing you're doing.
There's no such thing as a "fix". Solutions don't exist in politics, only tradeoffs exist. This is a trade I'm quite happy to make.
If others don't want to make the trade, that's fine, I have no issue with that. But saying nothing will happen can't be true. If you remove demand from a market, that affects prices. There's no way I can take seriously a disagreement with tenets of Econ 101.
This would make the situation slightly better for people who want to buy houses.
To the extent that it has the effect of transferring some properties from rentals to sales, it's only better for the renter who wants to buy and who just barely wasn't able to. It's worse for renters who either don't want to buy or who still can't afford it, because rents will increase due to reduced supply.
How are you so sure this will be a definite improvement? Many well-meaning policies have had a measurable negative effect.