New York City’s rulers regulate every detail, however minute, of a tenant’s interactions with a landlord, from the rent the latter may charge to the times and temperature of the heat he must provide. After all, the commies who’ve run the Big Apple for over a century now deem serfs too stupid to strike their own bargains. Plus, by regularly denouncing and hamstringing landlords, they curry immense favor with a pool of voters in which renters overwhelmingly outnumber those despised owners. Ergo, government punishes landlords who fail to provide heat, especially during the sort of freezing weather the East Coast … Continue reading Leviathan as Landlord