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Mike Garcia: “California is on the verge of effectively, from a price…”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia Town Hall 06AUG24

Published | Video Starts at 1:13:08

So you can go back to Hammurabi's code, you know, hundreds of thousands of years ago where every government that implemented price control policies, by the way, that's called socialism. In its end, state ends up falling apart. And California is on the verge of effectively, from a price control perspective, becoming a full on socialist state because of these policies. Same thing with rent control. Sounds great on paper, but the second and third order consequences is now landlords don't want to buy investment properties to rent out because they end up losing money on the deal. (1:13:08–1:13:18)

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Asserts that California's price control policies are pushing it towards socialism.

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