(09-02-2018, 02:19 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-02-2018, 12:17 AM)jj82284 Wrote: Did you notice that the author spent a lot of time talking about big cities?  Did he mention who runs those cities and the fact that by and large the statistics he's citing are as a result of his policy ideas failing?  
He talks a lot about the costs of secondary education and healthcare.  Does he point out that state intervention is a main driver in making these things less affordable?  

He talks about the working poor and income inequality.  I missed the part where he patted America on the back for the 22 trillion (that's with a hard grandchild bankrupting TR ladies and gentlemen) in transfer payments that the United States has made since the War on Poverty.

It's like Cold Medicine that makes you cough.  You'd think more people would have caught on by now.

The thing that makes bigger cities unaffordable is typically housing costs, and it's not really a Democrat/Republican issue . Democrats who run cities tend to be more amenable to rent control, but that is only a small part of the story.  Most of the story is, outside Florida, Texas, Nevada, and Arizona,  that existing residents vote for strict, low density zoning and vote against allowing sprawling development.  Florida Texas, Nevada and Arizona tends to reject high density zoning but allow sprawl.  This is very much a bipartisan, but local, issue.