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Why did I bother paying rent then? Feels like being fiscally responsible is just a fool’s game here.
by quantified 5y ago
Why did I bother paying rent then? Feels like being fiscally responsible is just a fool’s game here.
- matt-attack 5y agoSame with the student loan repayment. Why did I bust my ass for 10 years and forgo: home ownership, travel, dinners out, etc.?
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- dragonwriter 5y ago> Why did I bother paying rent then? Because the state was under no legal obligation to do this, and even perceiving the problem and having a government that wanted to solve it, is unlikely to have done so (or even have beem able to do so, given Constitutional balanced budget rules) if it hadn't ended up with an enormous unexpected budget surplus to throw at it, so acting based on the assumption that it would do so if you had the capacity to pay rent would be an unacceptable risk of eviction once the emergency moratorium ended, which it was certainly going to at some point.