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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (738154)4/27/2006 4:49:20 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
How to rein in housing prices? It's simple

By BILL VIRGIN
P-I COLUMNIST

Ever on the lookout for opportunities to serve, a Seattle P-I reader has come forth with the basis of an elegantly simple solution to the vexing problem of the high cost of homes in Seattle.

It draws upon the same philosophical underpinnings as the proposals to solve the gasoline-price crisis, and in fact employs much the same regulatory mechanism as is proposed to cap the price at the pump.

If gouging the motorist is wrong, so is gouging the prospective home buyer -- or so this line of thinking goes.

The solution is simple.

Make it a crime to sell your house for more than you bought it.......

More at seattlepi.nwsource.com
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