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Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by BurningFrog on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:20AM (#9543423)
Like many things, regulations are a mix of sensible time tested rules and regulatory capture/crony capitalist oligopoly cementing rules.

The debate often sounds like it must be 100% of either.

Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by cbd1984 on Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:45AM (#9543615)
Well, when you hear enough people saying "The government is always the problem" like it's a religious dogma, and claiming that a free market can solve every problem, for ever and ever amen, it gets a bit tiresome.