Price Controls (Just like Venezuela tried)

In a world where the market drops below the freeze point.

I accept your surrender.

Try and learn from the errors Venezuela government made.

It is an easy study.

Energy cost is scary enough.

All self inflicted by Biden on day 1.

You’re incorrect on this. There is not anywhere close to 10’s of millions of South American immigrants in the US.

It is an easy study… if one were to look at it one would see that the economy of Venezuela has nearly nothing in common with the economy of the US.

That is the fundamental problem with constantly stoking fear that the US will end up like that country… it won’t.

Mmmmm. While technically true… there are 10 of millions of illegals here from more socialist countries than the US.

That’s what they said…

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That is exactly what they said.

It was all so predictable.

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Not going to worry about the Nixon vs Venezuela deflection. It doesn’t matter because PRICE CONTROLS are wrong in every case, whether tried by Socialist/Communist nations or whether a misguided attempt by the leader in a Capitalist nation.

And for the record, I oppose all price controls, including the minimum wage, though pragmatically it is not going away. I also oppose anti-price gouging laws, rent control and anything else remotely connect to price controls.

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My electric is going from 7 cents a kwh to ten cents. Bet that really sucks for the poor and people on fixed incomes.

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yet, and not for lack of trying

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I’m surprised mine hasn’t risen yet.

But I think my area being provided by nuclear power is insulating us for now. But that won’t last forever, since uranium has to be delivered on specially prepared trucks and diesel is going to hit an average of 6 bucks per gallon sometime soon if the fuel crisis doesn’t start to recede.

We will be seeing rising rates at anytime now.

Bernie Sanders wrote Joe Biden’s “unity” platform. He’s praised Venezuela previously and even received Maduro’s endorsement, so it shouldn’t be any surprise that the Democratic Party would want to emulate that style of governance.

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You didn’t really thing that was going to swing your way, did you.:grinning:

Somebody should remind her of how that worked out during the Nixon administration.

Seriously.

Why do you think recycling bad republican ideas is brilliant?

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It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I can’t believe people voted for these morons.

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Is that why liberals are pushing this garbage that overturning Roe is going to kill women? Is that why they constantly preach how evil Republicans will throw you off of Social Security? The racist accusations. The tax the rich mantra? … I find it hilarious that a leftist thinks Republicans are the ones engaged in fear mongering. In case you missed it, we have a SERIOUS set of issues that have come upon us in the past 15 months. HUGE inflation (Yes, Trump was part of that for the stimulus and not fighting shut downs), illegals swarming the border, supply chain issues, $30 TRILLION in debt, a nuclear power at war with someone we promised to protect under Obama…morons in DC that continue to double down on bad policy…

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