Spanish Rent Control End Spells Doom for Shopkeepers, Boom for Big Bidness

Started by CountDeMoney, January 02, 2015, 04:14:51 PM

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mongers

#15
January 02, 2015, 08:41:50 PM
Do some Americans consider it a sign of weakness to show some sympathy for the little guy?
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grumbler

#16
January 02, 2015, 08:44:44 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on January 02, 2015, 04:36:35 PM
The destruction of small businesses is good, since it narrows the constituency for capitalism, and makes it more efficient for when the government finally goes ahead and takes over Walton-Chase Enterprises.
8/10  :thumbsup:
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Razgovory

#17
January 02, 2015, 08:45:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 02, 2015, 08:08:08 PM
Before was absolutely the last poster I figured for a Grab On sock puppet.

I don't know, I had him begged as a captain closet.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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grumbler

#18
January 02, 2015, 08:46:23 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 02, 2015, 08:41:50 PM
Do some Americans consider it a sign of weakness to show some sympathy for the little guy?

Three of them do.  They are all related and all live in upstate New York.
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mongers

#19
January 02, 2015, 08:49:51 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 02, 2015, 08:45:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 02, 2015, 08:08:08 PM
Before was absolutely the last poster I figured for a Grab On sock puppet.

I don't know, I had him begged as a captain closet.

My understanding of the vernacular fail me, what's a 'Grab On' ?   :hmm:
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Razgovory

#21
January 02, 2015, 08:58:14 PM
garbon.  I also meant to say "pegged".  Anyone who goes on that much about his machismo has got to be into sausage.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

#22
January 02, 2015, 09:12:35 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 02, 2015, 08:08:08 PM
Before was absolutely the last poster I figured for a Grab On sock puppet.

I don't have enough energy to maintain a sock puppet. :weep:
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Iormlund

#23
January 02, 2015, 09:33:10 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 02, 2015, 08:41:50 PM
Do some Americans consider it a sign of weakness to show some sympathy for the little guy?

These are not really little guys. Little guys are those who pay similar rents, but in much shittier locations.

LaCroix

#24
January 02, 2015, 09:34:17 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 02, 2015, 08:41:50 PM
Do some Americans consider it a sign of weakness to show some sympathy for the little guy?

on average, i think americans generally look after the little guy, regardless of their political party. for example, many conservatives in smaller communities/rural areas are all for the little guy. and there are plenty of liberals who are unsympathetic to the little guy.  :)

Eddie Teach

#25
January 03, 2015, 10:21:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 02, 2015, 08:58:14 PM
garbon.  I also meant to say "pegged".  Anyone who goes on that much about his machismo has got to be into sausage.

Just because sometimes he handles other men's guns doesn't make him gay.
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#26
January 03, 2015, 10:43:02 AM
Quote from: garbon on January 02, 2015, 04:19:09 PM
Rent control can be pretty bad. I don't have such a view though with regards to rent stabilization (e.g. increases can't be drastic).
:yes: Rent control is an act of pure economic idiocy, and it merely rewards luck and bribery at the cost of nuking investment in real estate property.  I can't say I agree about rent stabilization, only because in practice "not drastic" is a rate somewhere between 0 and a fraction of inflation rate.

CountDeMoney

#27
January 03, 2015, 10:43:26 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 02, 2015, 08:41:50 PM
Do some Americans consider it a sign of weakness to show some sympathy for the little guy?

Yes;  sympathy and compassion is for suckers, and nobody deserves it less than the little guy.  They don't like it, they should have been a big guy.

Ideologue

#28
January 03, 2015, 06:54:17 PM
If you have sympathy for the little guy, or if God forbid you are a little guy, you probably want to shoot up a mall.
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MadImmortalMan

#29
January 03, 2015, 08:06:04 PM
Pretty soon, the only ones still working for the big guys will be the lawyers and the HR girls.
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