The 'bad housing policies' are exactly what the liberal wants. Behind close doors they admit this but publicly these policies have to be wrapped in environmentalism and overregulation to make it near impossible to build.
I was just speaking to a man who is fighting over a 20 unit apartment that is going to 'destroy the character of my neighborhood' ... but is of course happy to condemn people in Springfield, Ohio for not wanting 20k refugees in their city.
I think the author really misunderstands the cultural values of the upper class in CA.
Thus the liberal must acknowledge that they have bad housing policies or leave the challenge unanswered.
Is that the fallacy of the excluded middle? False dichotomy? It's a comedy of unfounded assertions at any rate.
He seems to know the real estate and infrastructure portion then lets his biases steer. Is that motivated thinking? cognitive bias?
In the mean time, liberals should try to move corporate income taxes in the direction of a cash flow tax where possible and make tweaks to reduce welfare cliffs and penalties to behavior like marriage.
I think that one is called trying to bell the cat.
(I check his bio and...oh)
I’m a Freshman at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Applied Mathematics.
It's no fair to pick on him, I recall many great beer fueled discussions where we solved all the worlds problems at that age. Hope he goes on to accomplish great things.
I was just speaking to a man who is fighting over a 20 unit apartment that is going to 'destroy the character of my neighborhood' ... but is of course happy to condemn people in Springfield, Ohio for not wanting 20k refugees in their city.
I think the author really misunderstands the cultural values of the upper class in CA.