First off, we’re beginning to suspect that NowThis News is yet another left-leaning “news” outlet, seeing as they just made a two-and-a-half-minute 2020 campaign video for Sen. Kamala Harris.
In any case, as Twitchy reported Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris is now talking about minimum wage workers not being able to afford housing, even if PolitiFact did drop the ball on its fact-check of her math. (Pro tip: people earning minimum wage don’t usually live in the “average” apartment — there are less expensive options.)
And now she’s introduced a bill that would “give money back” to families paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities — which we wager would cover a lot of people who aren’t making minimum wage.
Kamala Harris knows rent is too high — so she’s proposing a law that will give money back to families paying more than 30% of their income on rent pic.twitter.com/rxjjuMZ1sa
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 26, 2018
Um, we watched the whole video and we have questions.
And how are you going to pay for this?
— Keith Finklea (@keith_finklea) July 26, 2018
Where is this money coming from?
— sexyjpharowiz (@Sexyjpharowiz) July 26, 2018
Yeah, who pays it? Do your landlord and the electric company and the gas company have to reimburse you? Does the government (i.e., taxpayers) give you a refund? Won’t this encourage people to move into apartments they can’t afford knowing they’ll get any “excess” expenses back? And won’t it encourage landlords to hike rents?
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Make us pay for California’s problems and incentivize rental prices to go even higher? Where do I sign up?
— Brian Jackson (@brianjacksonXP) July 26, 2018
https://twitter.com/BionicRex5/status/1022632338252021760
Won’t that just give more incentive to increase prices on rent, thus exasperating the underlying issue?
— Autistic?Guy??LA? (@HenryRBishop) July 26, 2018
https://twitter.com/AmOnlyABoi/status/1022615693634822145
It is absolutely idiotic to require that the middle of the country subsidize the rents of people who choose to live in Cali and NY. It's amoral and will only push rents higher in those places
— NarcissisticNarwhal (@NecroticNewt) July 27, 2018
Or you know….less regulations so more houses can be built and zones can be better used?
— FuzzyFace56 (@FuzzyFace56) July 26, 2018
Kamala continues to make promises she knows she can't keep all to get your votes however she has to do so
— Rusty Pharris (@rusty_pharris) July 26, 2018
Is it just us, or has anyone else noticed the trend that anything people don’t “want” to pay for somehow becomes a “right”? Like housing is a right, and health care is a right, and cell phones are a right, and broadband Internet access is a right, and …
And as long as we’re asking questions, when did a family of four with one breadwinner earning minimum wage become the yardstick by which everything is measured?
We’re really sorry to say that people are eating it up, no questions asked.
Sign me up!
— Nancy Staack (@nancystaack) July 26, 2018
This is really good and much needed I support it 100%! Great job @KamalaHarris
— Le Lum (@LeLum11) July 26, 2018
Subsidizing slum lords with tax payer money isn't the answer. The problem is price.
Housing should be a right and no more than 30% should one pay for housing. Govt can make it the law.
— Dave Singer ?? ?? ??????? (@Dave_S001) July 26, 2018
“Government can make it the law” that no one pays more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Great idea. And make it a law that the minimum wage is $100 an hour while you’re at it. Venezuela, here we come.
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It appears that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's solution for homelessness — SURPRISE! — may involve your vacant apartment https://t.co/N5gpjO0CTk
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 26, 2018
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