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Is the Rent Too Damn High?

Is the Rent Too Damn High?

  • Yes, and his mutton chops should run as Deputy Mayor!

    Votes: 11 61.1%

  • Yes, and he'll lower it with his impressive karate skills!

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • Yes, and legal marriage shouldn't exclude a person and their footwear!

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Total voters
    18
megaprogman said:
Just because something isn't in a contract and someone can legally be taken advantage of doesn't make it right. It amazes me when people substitute legality for morality.
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I agree that people should not substitute legality for morality. However, I would not jump to the conclusion that they are charging a higher rate just because they can. Since owning my own business, I have learned that I need to charge a higher rate when the cost of doing business is higher. When you go over your minutes, you are charged more because the cost of doing business with you is higher.
 
Ivan The Terrible said:
I agree that people should not substitute legality for morality. However, I would not jump to the conclusion that they are charging a higher rate just because they can. Since owning my own business, I have learned that I need to charge a higher rate when the cost of doing business is higher. When you go over your minutes, you are charged more because the cost of doing business with you is higher.
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Regular plan: cost of minutes 2-cents each. Over your limit: 35-cents each. It is not 17 times higher to do business with me. It's the very SAME cost.

I owned a successful business for 20 years. I charged what traffic would bear, no less. Tested higher prices alllll the time. Many times for no other earthly reason than I could.
 
Psychoclown said:
You still haven't told me how cell companies are being immoral. I agree that legality =/= morality. But I'm failing to see how a company selling a useful product that harms no one and is completely upfront about the terms of purchase is acting immorally.
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Than you are confusing morality for legality. Just because someone can do something legally (whether through contract or law) does not mean it is moral. Often a person has to have a service such as a cell phone in order to get a job, especially if its an on call situation. Because of this, a person is not free, due to the requirement imposed on them.

This is a point that I often see libertarians get confused on. There are restrictions on people that come about from other sourced than law.
 
Ivan The Terrible said:
MaggieD,

And you know this how?
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A little thingie called Common Sense. My airtime costs them no more to provide whether I make 5 calls or 500. It's a profit center, nothing more. I don't mind paying a premium if I go over my limit, thus encouraging me to subscribe to a higher-minute/higher-cost plan. But 17 times more, with no notification, is onerous.
 
MaggieD said:
A little thingie called Common Sense.
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Yes how silly of me, I was under the impression we used cost and market forces to set price. :doh


My airtime costs them no more to provide whether I make 5 calls or 500.
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Yes it does. A cost is incurred every time you use the service. Do you think that this service is infinite? ;)

But 17 times more, with no notification, is onerous.
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No it simply cost to much to keep track of every ones plan and notify them of time used. Much better to put that on the consumer in the form of a higher bill.
 
Ivan The Terrible said:
Yes it does. A cost is incurred every time you use the service. Do you think that this service is infinite? ;)
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Of COURSE one should pay for overcalls. But there's a charge and then there's gouging. Charge me FOUR times the normal rate -- not SEVENTEEN.

No it simply cost to much to keep track of every ones plan and notify them of time used. Much better to put that on the consumer in the form of a higher bill.
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Then let the company offer it as an extra charge. I'd pay $5/month for them to text me when I've used my minutes. THAT'S customer service. NOT price gouging.
 
This guy is too damn hilarious.
I’m wondering, how is he going to provide a play to stay, food, and money in our pockets?
 
I don’t see how he is living rent free; isn’t he paying for his apartment by working as the maintenance person for the landlord?
I’m still left wondering how he is going to provide ‘all of the above.’
 
The rent is too damn high! Forget Mayor or Governor. Put this guy in the white house already.
 
justabubba said:
loved the black leather gloves
another entertainer seeking to enter the political arena
smart move. where else do people spend millions to obtain a position which pays thousands
it must be lucrative ...
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Well that dey raping everybody is a frigging Star now and was on Hip Hop Honors and has a music video out now:doh
 
Cephus said:
That's ridiculous, apparently some people don't comprehend the basics of capitalism. If people are willing to pay high prices, that's what will be charged. If these apartment owners have 50% empty apartments, they'll lower prices to attract new renters. It's supply and demand. When people are willing to buy at high prices, prices stay high.
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Its not that easy. Property taxes are high so landlords have to adjust to make sure they can pay the property tax. And then there is garbage to pay, utilities, lawyers, maintence, and then mortgage. So really sometimes rent is high is due to property taxes more than anything else.
 
Gray_Fox_86 said:
Its not that easy. Property taxes are high so landlords have to adjust to make sure they can pay the property tax. And then there is garbage to pay, utilities, lawyers, maintence, and then mortgage. So really sometimes rent is high is due to property taxes more than anything else.
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Where is the "Taxes are too damn high!" party?
 
winston53660 said:
Wouldn't that be the Rpublicans and or the the Tea Party?
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No they are the hypocrites party. As far as I know we have no party in the nation that actually wants to bring expenses down. its fun for too many people to have money grow on trees that they cannot control themselves.
 
I'm a landlord and I have news for you: the rent is too damn low!
 
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