Soak your Marxist heads

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Dec 21

RE: Doug Ford’s housing crisis lip service.  Hamilton Spectator editorial 14 Dec 21

The Arts Majors who type editorials for the Spectator need to broaden their knowledge of economics.  The answer to the housing crisis won’t be found in the pages of Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto.  At the risk of one’s hair catching fire, the answer will be found in the works of Thomas Sowell, such as Visions of the Anointed and Discrimination and Disparities.  The housing crisis is caused by a shortage of new land for housing development.

The present crisis was caused by the imposition of the “green zone” around Toronto.  This prevented new housing development to occur north of Toronto.  Hamilton is contributing to the problem by refusing to expand its urban boundary.  The purpose of Ford’s task force on housing affordability is to discover and promulgate Thomas Sowell’s insight, and thus create conditions for the release of new land for housing development.

Marx is useful to the power-hungry and the nihilists, who each seek to exploit social upheaval for their own ends.  But Marx is empty of real answers to real problems.  Hence, the editorial writers should soak their heads, read Thomas Sowell, and come to see the light.

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