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Explain why crime rates and homelessness rates are so low in countries with high Gini Coefficients and so high in countries with low Gini Coefficients. Why is there such overwhelming ubiquity across the board in positive social factors with countries that have a strong social safety net and such **** poor results in countries that don't emphasize it? And just so that we have a control for "positive social factors," I mean low crime rates, low instances of homelessness, and a general higher standard of living.
I suppose it's all just coincidence or false statistics, huh?
It's all easily explained... But it is NOT cause and effect.
I suspect you don't want to disabuse yourself of some very, very precious presumptions that underpin your ideology, but if you want to discuss it, perhaps start a thread on "why are some countries prosperous and others in poverty?" and we can discuss the real causes. It is truly far afield of this thread.
Correct for the most part. The questions in the OP are pretty simple, but only one poster (ChrisC) who is not a "Leftist" really made the attempt. One other poster continues to claim that "conservatives won't allow the poor to own property" and that it is really zoning laws that keep people poor.
Let's give the Leftists another chance to answer these questions …… or even one of them.
I've been asking (in many different forums) for years - What do you consider "wealth" and what do you consider "Rich"? I've never gotten an answer to that.
To clarify, zoning laws do not 'keep poor people poor', they deny to the poor the wealth-building tools that home ownership affords. Poor people who can buy homes DO escape rent inflation and they DO build equity as they pay down their mortgages - building wealth in the process. Home ownership matters, especially when the home is the primary wealth asset of most Americans.
To clarify, zoning laws do not 'keep poor people poor', they deny to the poor the wealth-building tools that home ownership affords. Poor people who can buy homes DO escape rent inflation and they DO build equity as they pay down their mortgages - building wealth in the process.
Real estate taxes deny ownership to the poor as well.
OMG that is hilarious, can't believe I typoed that.
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