“Suppose that you want to destroy a city. Should you bomb it, or would it be sufficient just to impose rent control?”
–Art Carden, The Unintended Consequences of Rent Control
No offense, economic illiterates out there who should be denied the right to vote.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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I would submit that the current state of Texas tenant law is so far in favor of the tenant that the effect will be the same but not near to the extent that rent control would be.