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Thomas Sowell has long argued that good intentions don’t guarantee good outcomes. California is a perfect example of why housing policy, regulations and incentives matter. When government makes it harder and more expensive to build homes, the people with the fewest resources often suffer the most. Sowell would tell...

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Sowell should be required reading in every economics and civics class.

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🦊: make sure to start with good intentions and always good intentions. i feel like some people just wants to be famous to get money and those things are not really good in the long run. LOUDER MIKHA LIM!!! AND HEAVY ON THE TOPIC OF FACT CHECKING!!
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This is why the left hates to face facts. Thomas Sowell has spent decades emphasizing the importance of looking at evidence and real-world outcomes rather than letting political assumptions determine what we believe. Facts don’t change just because they’re inconvenient.
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