Staff Reports
Kamala Harris has surfaced once again, this time to sprinkle her real estate wisdom all over the housing market. It seems the Vice President has an uncanny knack for grabbing headlines, and not in a good way. Robert Showah’s recent piece in The Wall Street Journal paints a rather grim picture, suggesting that Harris’s housing ideas reveal a growing appetite on both sides of the aisle to hand over more power to the federal government. Who needs local solutions when you can have a one-size-fits-all federal plan, right?
Showah’s lament highlights the disconnect between what Harris proposes and the reality of public sentiment towards the federal government. Trust in federal institutions is spiraling downward faster than a real estate price drop in a recession, yet here comes Harris, marching in with grand plans that might as well be a blueprint for an 18-car garage built on quicksand. The audacity is almost impressive.
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— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) September 2, 2024
One can’t help but wonder what universe Harris is living in. While everyday Americans are just trying to keep their heads above water when it comes to housing costs, she’s busy crafting policies that suggest everyone should just turn to Uncle Sam for their housing solutions. This push for federalization doesn’t just ignore local concerns; it practically shoves them into a closet marked “not our problem.” It’s as if Harris believes that packing everyone’s problems under a federal umbrella will somehow solve them, rather than enlarge them.
The “populist left and right” may be craving federal intervention, but it’s hard to understand why they aren’t seeing the glaring consequences of such decisions. Federal bureaucracy is notoriously slow and inefficient—a bit like trying to put out a fire with a garden hose when you really need a fire truck. It seems to have completely skipped Harris’s mind that local governments typically know their communities better than a distant federal entity ever could. Maybe she’s too busy attending cocktail parties with donors to notice.
As more Americans grow skeptical of federal control over their lives, Harris’s plan appears to be a losing gamble. It’s a classic case of trying to fix a problem with a bigger government footprint when what the people truly need is more local autonomy and real solutions. Bold moves like these might be well-intentioned, but the reality is that Harris’s ideas could very well end up buried under a mountain of paperwork and bureaucracy—the very things Americans are increasingly tired of. In a world where homeowners want manageable, sensible solutions, they’re more likely to roll their eyes at Harris’s latest home-owning fever dreams than to line up for a visit to the federal real estate agency.
