Robin Garwood wrote: "In my opinion, having lived through the late nineties as a renter in this town, "what the market will bear" is unbearable."
Ms. Garwood's post reveals a basic misunderstanding of the free market system. "What the market will bear" exerts downward pressure on prices, not upward. Free competition encourages providers to make available the best product at the lowest price. When artificial controls are placed on prices, artificial prices, both artificially low and artificially high, result (as pointed out in Jim Graham's post) P.S. the hundred Dylans is brilliant Dave McCoy Seward _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
