Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
This law passed, people who claim to be abuse victims can walk away from their leases.
I understand the emotional appeal of this law, but the potential for abuse is obvious. And once landlords get burnt, they’ll be twice shy about renting to people who have boyfriend trouble, or are divorced, or have a history of domestic trouble, the unintended consequence of which will be that the very people we’re trying to protect will find it harder to get a place to live.
I can see that. Why can’t Liberals?
Joe Doakes
Because none of them – at least, the elected ones – have the foggiest idea how business and the markets work? None of them could identify “perverse incentive” if they saw one?
I could keep going.
Another way to look at it is that liberals believe that their good intentions will simply materialize, and that reality would not DARE to disobey them. They like commanding the seas not to rise, every day. And when it does, it’s the fault of Republicans.
Watching how the MN legislature maneuvered through this year’s gun law assault, which used domestic abuse as a shield, also showed that law makers on both sides of the issue have very little understanding of the underlying process and procedures that they are trying to “fix.”
Second to them are judges who get to eat the sausage but stay clear of the butcher shop.
When I was 13-years-old I used to think there was an agency that could cure everything.
Then I grew up.
Sad.