Letter to the editor
Affordable housing is the latest in a long line of government schemes to control not just the less fortunate, but the affluent as well. How? Simple. When government takes from one people-group to give to another, it controls both — because, in the end, government is force.
The government’s ability to take by force of regulation or threat is very real. Case in point: we see this in the very real outcomes of the progressive property tax policies. Quite evident, as well, was the mania leading up to our government-created 2008 housing bubble. Artificially low interest rates and easy lending practices distorted markets, causing a frenzy, and the collateral damage is still being felt…