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by mothballed 35 days ago
I understand the reasoning here, though people of your persuasion have been run out of my county because they are scared shitless of what will happen with what will happen under such deregulation.

In reality what happened, was basically nothing. People that could afford decent sanitation continued to buy it, while the people shitting in the streets could now at least shit in a hole on a piece of land they could buy. We deregulated housing 20 years ago and eliminated inspections, and none of the apocalyptical worries by the nay-sayers came true.

The main results we saw was it's cheaper to build a house, and we ran bureaucratic bootlickers out of town because of their irrational fear of what turned out to be a nothing-burger (which might have been the more valuable of the two effects).