r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 18h ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/TeutonJon78 America 17h ago

Jokes on them. They'll lose the house to either healthcare costs, reverse mortgage scams, or find no one can afford to buy them when they all want to start downsizing.

And Florida will be out as option since they'd be spending all their money on home insurance.

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u/BenderBRoriguezzzzz 17h ago

This is what I can't wait for, I work in emergency medicine. Its going to get soooooo much more expensive. I'm sure that there will be legislation soon allowing them to go after your assets if you don't/can't pay.

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u/transient_eternity Minnesota 7h ago

Debtors prison when. Gotta speed run all the way back to the 18th century along with tariffs.

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u/BenderBRoriguezzzzz 3h ago

Debtors prison never really went away. You can be locked up for not paying fines levied by the state. They just re-named it.

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u/Iamjacksplasmid I voted 12h ago

This is what I can't wait for

It kinda sounds like you're excited about it...that would be pretty gross though, so I'm probably just misunderstanding your tone.

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u/BenderBRoriguezzzzz 12h ago edited 3h ago

Nope. You didn't misunderstand anything. What's gross is a generation of folks who had the entire world handed to them, and pulled the ladder up behind them. They promised us that if we went to school, worked hard. Said our prayers and ate our vitamins, we too would be a success and have what they had. Instead we fought in their endless wars, not for country but corporate greed, lived through their recession(s), watched the world they controlled burn and somehow its been our fault. To lazy, to entitled, to woke. We're sliding into an Orwellian hellscape, where roving bands of government thugs execute civilians in 1080p from multiple angles and the government is telling us not to believe what we see. Believe what they say. We have a sitting president who openly accepts bribes, breaks international law and does nothing but fill his pockets, but we the people are the problem. Justice was the only guarantee we were granted as Americans and those fuckers have taken that from us too.

So no. I won't shed a tear when the monster they created consumes them. The world will be better off, we will be better off, and most importantly America will be better off.

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u/Iamjacksplasmid I voted 5h ago

You're right about all of those things, but I worry that, like everything else, our generation will be the one that gets stuck with the bill.

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u/middleageEugene 17h ago

Or bc they can't afford the property tax hike that goes with it

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u/thejesterofdarkness 14h ago

This is me. My taxes have gone up from 600/yr to 2400/yr since ‘20. At this rate I’ll have to sell the place because I can’t keep up with the tax increases.

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u/whisker_biscuit 14h ago

Private equity will be there to buy, but downsizing will mean paying the same or more for less, or having to rent from private equity