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Brickbat: It All Adds Up

Charles Oliver | 7.14.2017 4:00 AM


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Harald Tjøstheim

In an effort to promote affordable housing, California lawmakers plan to add a $75 fee to most real estate documents. Democratic state. Sen. Toni Atkins says the fee could raise almost $1 billion a year, which would be used to fund affordable housing.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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