Much of the market observer community recently has wondered why Pacific Gas and Electric’s stock had a sharp valuation increase over the course of a day.
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Politicians seem to think they can fix the very problems they create. High taxation runs up the cost of everything including housing. Your property taxes increase, you have taxes on the utilities for your house, insurance goes up with a houses value, and thusly rent goes up. You can only control these market forces by shrinking government and or reducing taxes. JohnBarleycorn