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Quick Thoughts on Incentives and Disincentives: Housing Market

Quick Thoughts on Incentives and Disincentives: Housing Market

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Rob Hahn
Aug 10, 2022
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A quick thought today, brought on by a brief Twitter exchange that is otherwise unrelated.

It is an economic law that you get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you tax. Human beings are remarkably good at responding to incentives and disincentives.

So we subsidize solar power, EVs and corn -- voila, a lot more solar panels, Teslas and corn syru…

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