10/04/2026
Voting for people who promise to increase your taxes and regulations will always yield the same misery every time. Reducing taxes, regulations and size of government will always improve people's lives over time. It's time to vote for conservative Republicans to save us from Socialism's misery and death.
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This cartoon captures one of the most misunderstood facts in economics.
Voters are told a simple story. Raise taxes on property owners, make the landlords pay, and everyone else gets off free. It sounds fair. It sounds like someone else's problem.
Then the lease renewal shows up in the mailbox.
Here's what the story leaves out. A landlord is running a business, and property taxes are one of the biggest costs of running it. When that cost goes up, the money doesn't appear out of thin air. It has to come from somewhere.
And the somewhere is usually the tenant.
It might not happen all at once. Sometimes rent jumps at renewal. Sometimes the landlord stops fixing things, puts off the new roof, or drops the move-in special. Sometimes the owner sells, and the new buyer prices the higher tax bill into every unit.
Over time, it also changes who builds. If owning rental property becomes less profitable, fewer people build new apartments. Fewer apartments means more competition for the ones that exist, and that pushes rents higher still.
So the renters who cheered for taxing "the rich" end up helping pay the bill.
Economists have a name for this. It's called tax incidence, and it simply means the person a tax is aimed at isn't always the person who pays it. Costs flow toward whoever has the fewest options, and renters in a tight housing market have very few.
That's why "make someone else pay" is one of the oldest tricks in politics. It feels good at the ballot box. The bill arrives later, with your name on it.
Many of the people pushing these policies have never had to balance a business budget or meet a payroll. To them, a landlord is a villain to punish, not a link in a chain that runs straight to their own front door.
Good intentions don't change the math.
Have you ever seen a tax "on someone else" show up in your own bills?
