Government regulations costs our economy between $1 and $2 trillion a year, in an $18 trillion economy. Some of that is needed. Most isn’t.
Housing prices have gone up 33.8% from 2011 to 2016, according to the WSJ article of July 23, 2016, “The Fees That Inflate Home Costs.”
There is a great deal of heat directed toward evil banks about teh costs of buying a house. How about some of that directed towards governments that don’t have the guts to say, we need to increase property tax to support the infrastructure for new homes.