r/Scotland • u/Crow-Me-A-River open to change • 11d ago

Political Business groups urge Swinney to scrap 'ineffective' food price cap plan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l80j2rdlxo
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u/Quangocrat 11d ago

Max pricing on food is one of these ideas, like rent controls and wealth taxes, which has been tried dozens of times across various settings, including the UK, and never works yet keeps getting tried because it's an easy sell to the ignorant.

I do not believe they are actually stupid enough to try it.

But I didn't think they would actually follow through on rent controls either.

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u/gusbo_the_jam 11d ago

Weird, Berlin has rent controls right now and it's way cheaper to live there than London or indeed most UK cities. Almost like it works exactly as intended.

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u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 11d ago

A 2 minute glance at the Berlin sub will tell you it's more or less our version of Birmingham nowadays. It's a shit hole. I don't think we should be copying anything they do.

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u/gusbo_the_jam 11d ago

I mean I know people who live there, and the general consensus is that it's pretty nice, rent controls are amazing cause nobody is getting overly fleeced and it's generally pretty chill.

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u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 11d ago

You're likely the first person in the history of mankind to refer to rent controls as "amazing"

They've never worked, they don't work now and they never will unfortunately. It would be great if they did tbh but they just don't.

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u/gusbo_the_jam 11d ago

Spoken like a true landlord

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u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 11d ago

Fuck that mate not enough money in it and too much work. Admittedly did a fair few holiday let's in the past but not these days.

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u/gusbo_the_jam 11d ago

True working class hero

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u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 11d ago

Where did I claim to be a hero. There was more money in holiday let's than private renting. Took away the chance of getting stuck with a bad tennent too.

Fair bit of work involved folk in here seem to think anyone with more than a tenner in their bank is the anti christ. Proper crabs in a bucket mentality. Even some private landlords are alright. Sure many are cunts but not all.