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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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On 8/21/24 23:28, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 8/21/2024 10:41 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> ...
>>>> No Paul, you are wrong here. Any common sense interpretation of that 
>>>> text
>>>> makes it obvious that Lynn is right and you are wrong.
>>>
>>> Paul is correct.   A ban on price gouging is _not_ the same as
>>> price controls.
>>>
>>> One might even go so far as suggesting that the inability of the
>>> federal government to enforce the anti-trust laws have increased
>>> the frequency of price gouging.  Particularly in the grocery
>>> industry which has overly consolidated over since 1980.
>>
>> I noted elsewhere that what should have been an unrelated book
>> reminded me how much of the Federal control was put into place in a
>> era very much like our own. Anti-trust laws, food content regulation,
>> associated laws and associated Federal agencies stem from those times.
>>
>> Perhaps this is the first glimmer of what further Federal controls and
>> even agencies will be added /this/ time around.
>>
>> 1%-ers, it seems, never learn.
> 
> Please tell me of any country that put price controls on food that 
> survived that act as a democracy or a republic.
> 
> BTW, the number one national seller of food in the USA is Walmart. 
> Walmart disrupted the grocery industry severely in the 1990s when they 
> added groceries to all of their stores.  Are you going to accuse Walmart 
> of price fixing ?  Walmart is where the poor go to shop, they know where 
> the best deal is.
> 
> Lynn
> 
	Read up on WW II measures in the USA where we had both
Price Controls and Food rationing to make more for the troops
on land and at sea. We seem to be a nearly functional
representative popular Democrary and Republic at the same time.
	As for hard times coming it seems to me that we always
have hard times for the lower economic classes. A feature not
a bug in Unregulated Capitalism.
"oh the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, in the meantime,
in between timss, ain't we got fun?" Lyric from the 1930s.

	bliss

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