Catania has become the most anti-free market member of the Council. Most of the doctors (including five of mine over five years) have already left the District because of malpractice costs, and now here go the drugs as well! What a great way to help your citizen patients!
Leonardo | Homepage | 09.21.05 - 10:41 am | #

Cicero -- When are you forsaking your "rent-stabilized" apartment and becoming a bona fide market participant/consumer?
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 09.21.05 - 1:58 pm | #

Nikos,

When rent stabilization is repealed.
Landlords can only raise their prices so much for every apartment in the city (I think). Thus, there's no way around it. True, I could move out and get a higher-priced place, but that would still only increase 2% a year, or 5%, whatever the cap (I'm pretty sure the entire city is like that, although I could be wrong). Also, if my landlord is dumb enough not to kick me out and turn the building into condos (like every other landlord in my neighorhood has already done to get around rent stabilization), that's not my fault.
cicero | Homepage | 09.21.05 - 2:35 pm | #

I see that you've spent a great deal of time thinking about it...

Taking advantage of this type of government intervention is not wholly statist per se. But you benefitting from it implies some personal moral sanction.

But I still vote, so I guess I've no business talking about lending personal moral sanction to statist larceny.
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 09.21.05 - 9:13 pm | #