The 2026 American Dream

The Red Tape Tax: If you tried to bake a loaf of bread but the city charged you $20 for a &quot;flour permit&quot; and made you wait six months to preheat the oven, bread would cost $50 a loaf. That’s our housing market.
The Incentives are Broken: City councils love high prices because high prices mean high property tax revenue. They have no incentive to lower your rent because it would shrink their &quot;ATM.&quot;
The Fix: Total Deregulation. Stop &quot;managing&quot; the growth and get out of the way. Abolish development fees, fire the zoning boards, and let the price signals actually work. If people want to live there, someone will build a way to house them if the state stops making it a legal nightmare.

The 2026 American Dream

If we think about the American Dream today, it seems more about stability and opportunity than just rising to wealth. With rising costs in housing and education, many young people feel that achieving middle‑class comfort is harder than it used to be. At this point people want to just achieve the average and many don't even strive for more and it is simply just sad to see.

KevinH said
Let’s be honest: The government "forgot" to check the infrastructure like a pyromaniac "forgets" that matches cause fire. This isn't a market glitch; it’s state-sponsored scarcity.

The Red Tape Tax: If you tried to bake a loaf of bread but the city charged you $20 for a "flour permit" and made you wait six months to preheat the oven, bread would cost $50 a loaf. That’s our housing market.

The Incentives are Broken: City councils love high prices because high prices mean high property tax revenue. They have no incentive to lower your rent because it would shrink their "ATM."

The Fix: Total Deregulation. Stop "managing" the growth and get out of the way. Abolish development fees, fire the zoning boards, and let the price signals actually work. If people want to live there, someone will build a way to house them if the state stops making it a legal nightmare.

Honestly this is a really funny analogy with the whole flour permit thing. We definitely still need housing permits and things of the source but they need to be a less lengthy process compared to what they are now.