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# Letter
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-28/
- Published: 2022-06-10T18:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-11T23:47:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, letter, letter to the editor, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

There’s nothing new about an individual enjoying free stuff, reduced pricing or to be happy about being entitled to special interest benefits.

Over time rent control is a crippling force that slowly depletes the motivation and desire to own property .

Instead rent control promotes the illusion of status with the proud benefit of openly stealing money and income from another.

It’s a mighty cost indeed the enjoyment of reduced rent: causing a collapse of your ability to move up in society and the socialist lifestyle that comes with it... my Santa Monica residents you pay a heavy toll.

Robert Kronovet, Santa Monica