Where are the tent protests going?

The tent protests create a serious dilemma.

While I would like to support the protests, as the cost of living has increased significantly and so many people simply cant make it to the end of the month even on decent salaries it just seems like a protest that is proper.

On the other hand, the protests are basically calling for government intervention in prices, be it in housing, be it in basic goods, be it in a host of other products and services that are pointed to. Once the government meddles with the prices, it is no longer a free market. If we don't operate in a free market, there goes our international economic benefits and credit ratings Who is to say that once we operate not in a free market, what we will expect the government to pay for, or intervene in, next. Eventually the government will have to raise taxes to be able to pay for all the price controls and subsidies that will be demanded.

So, while the protest is "just", on a certain level, I don't see or understand what they expect the government to do while keeping the market free. In housing and construction more land can be released, bureaucracy can be lessened to attain building permits, but in general cost of living items, there is not much that can be done.

An example of this is the recommendation of the Minister of Interior Eli Yishai. Yishai today recommended that the government pass a law that would maximize  the rent charged by owners of rental apartments to a maximum of 2% annually of the real estate value of the apartment. Why should the government put a limit on how much money I can make off an investment I put my money into? And if they do, that will kill the real estate market, as people wont bother investing in homes for rentals. That will take many homes off the rental market, again probably driving up prices of rentals.

The tent protests have an element of justice to them, I just don't see what they expect to happen. And that si without even dealing with the mixing of politics into it.