Hey I’m David Rand with Build The Dream, with a quick heads up.
President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers dropped a report yesterday. And it has a number in it that every American should see.
They call it the bureaucrat tax.
They calculate it by adding up every local fee, every permit delay, every zoning restriction, every code requirement. The total cost of all that government friction is the bureaucrat tax, and it’s estimated at over $100,000 ever single home in America. On average, that’s 24% of the price of a new house. For apartments, it’s 41%.
Not lumber. Not labor. Just the permission to build some housing. Exactly what I’ve been talking about in the past month since the launch of Build the Dream. Can you believe it’s already been a month?
Now here’s what that means in reverse: cut the bureaucrat tax, they estimate you could add 13 million homes to the housing stock.
We can do this without any new federal projects. No subsidies. No wealth transfers. Just by getting government out of the way.
The report points to real steps — for the federal and state governments. We’re going to break all of it down in the weeks ahead.
But the headline is simple. And it is a bombshell that should re-align the whole conversation on affordability on the right.
The housing crisis isn’t a mystery. It’s man-made scarcity. And President Trump’s own economists just put a $100,000 price tag on it.
Stay with us. The American Dream isn’t Dead, it just blocked by the Bureaucrat Tax,
We can Repeal it.
I’m David Rand. This is Build the Dream.
