• PhlubbaDubba
    514·
    2 months ago

    Gotta appreciate the attempt but I don’t see this surviving a SCOTUS case unless Biden hits them with “fuck you I’m doing it anyways because you said I’m immune to consequences for it”

    Also, it’s not a cap on the rent itself, but rather on how much it can be raised annually, seems watered down but the nordics do the same thing and it actually seems to work better than just straight rent control.

    • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      One clear downside, all rent goes up 5% every year going forward. Greedy assholes have to be greedy.

      • PhlubbaDubba
        8·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, but only 5%, that’s still much preferable to the shenanigans they’d pull jacking up the rent multiple times the current rate because they consider the lost revenue of it not being an Air BnB your responsibility to make whole.

        Plus if it’s so predictable, it’s stable and can be accounted for instead of sweating an unpredictable rate hike.

        • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
          146·
          2 months ago

          So according to you, politicians aren’t allowed to express their opinions on any issue or propose any policies, unless they have the ability to foretell the result of all the upcoming elections, to know exactly who will be elected and if there will be enough support from the other 535 people needed for making laws. Got it.

          So we will run on nothing and say nothing about any possible policies until we already know it has happened after the election, just to be safe. Dems will win in a landslide for sure, running on this message of we won’t say.

          And I assume you are upset with every politician who ever proposed something that then didn’t happen. Bernie, AOC, how dare you mention single payer and then don’t make it happen.

          Look, breaking a campaign promise would be if a politician is running for a position, that position has the power to do something and then they don’t do it. The president cannot make a public option out of thin air. It must be passed as a law. They have some influence for sure. But a broken campaign promise would be congress passed a public option, sent it to Biden’s desk, and then he vetoed it. That would be a broken campaign promise.

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
            34·
            2 months ago

            I didn’t say that politicians can’t have a platform. I’m saying that we shouldn’t run after the carrot on the stick every 4 god damn years. Biden used that, just as he’s using rent stabilization, as a carrot on a stick to draw in progressives with no intent to act on it. Unlike Biden’s attempts and limited successes on student loan forgiveness, Biden never once attempted to get a public option. He’s not going to do rent stabilization either, even at his stupidly high percentage proposal.

            • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
              104·
              2 months ago

              Okay, so if the goal isn’t accomplished in 4 years, politicians are no longer able to mention it again, got it.

              And he can’t do either of these things congress would be require for both. Neither are promises.

              I don’t think Sanders and AOC would be pushing so hard for Biden to stay the candidate if they didn’t think he was the best way to get policies they approve of in action.

                • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
                  71·
                  2 months ago

                  Yes and Medicare, Medicaid, the children’s health insurance program (chip), the affordable care act, all passed by Democrats. And there’s now three states with their own public option, all passed by Democrats.

                  I don’t understand why you don’t want politicians talking about things you support more. I wish the public option and Medicare for all were brought up even more. Talking about it less doesn’t make it more likely to happen, even if you’re not sure if the votes will be there to do it I the next cycle. If politicians who support Medicare for all keep doing well in elections, other politicians will see that and adopt that position too Then hey maybe enough someday will finally get elected they can get it all passed together. Politicians love passing stuff, it makes them more likely to be re elected. FDR didn’t get re elected four times by doing nothing.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
      122·
      2 months ago

      Hey quick thing. My cousin is trans.

      Which party won’t demonize and potentially want this family member dead?

      I’m gonna vote for that one.

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
      74·
      2 months ago

      You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. Biden resisted 4+ years of pressure to support changes to the Supreme Court. During the 2020 debates he said he wasn’t in favor of them. Now that his campaign is falling behind, suddenly he’s announcing he’s in favor of term limits for Supreme Court justices even though that would likely require a constitutional amendment.

      Biden has a longstanding tendency to be a stubborn old man. He supported the Hyde Amendment for decades but only when he was losing the primary badly in 2020 did he suddenly announce he no longer supported it. This is another last-minute promise to try and save his campaign. Biden defended credit card companies for decades (being a Delaware senator), suddenly seeing him flip and support tenants over corporations seems a bit out of his normal routine.