Bill Ackman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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How are they able to do that?
Just good policy.
Austin, Texas, rents have come way down.
Why?
Because they made it really easy to build.
You make it really hard to build in a city where people want to live or they're moving to, and then you don't allow landlords to recover the cost to renovate their units, they're going to pull them off the market.
So what's happened in New York, we had like 60,000 units that are off the market because the cost to renovate them cannot be recovered under the rent regulations.
You want the Ken Griffins of the world to locate Citadel here.
You want him to spend $250 million on an apartment.
Why?
Because that $250 million purchase made that building economically viable.
Well, the construction of that building created how many jobs?
How many rich people moved into that building who are going to pay taxes?
The system can work very well.
You want people at the very top who are...
A very small percentage of the population is paying a big, you know, it's something like the top 10%, generally 70% of the revenues.
That doesn't sound like a particularly unfair, you know, you want to have the Elon Musk of the world, but you don't want to discourage Elon Musk from locating his business here.
I mean, look at what's happening in California right now.
The United States made it such that a 5% wealth tax in California, which they say is one time, first of all, it's never one time.
Income taxes were de minimis, and they only applied to a small percentage of the population.
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