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Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme Would Lead to Food Shortagesmises.org/mises-wire/kamala-harriss-price-fixing-scheme-would-lead-food-shortages
54 sats \ 8 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 18 Oct 2024 econ
hese proposals represent nothing other than the promise to institute price-fixing on groceries and aspects of healthcare. To end so-called “price gouging,” the government would have to fix the top rate permissible to ask for certain goods. All talk of attacking “price gouging” by politicians implies price fixing.
Funny thing about price fixing, it never seems to work out. When it happens it seems everybody starves or starts paying the freemarket (black market) prices. Then goods get apportioned in the correct, satisfactory, method. What do you think happens when we run out of other peoples money?
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230 sats \ 5 replies \ @Msd0457890 18 Oct 2024
I am not surprised that they want to take such a measure in the United States. This is one of the many measures that were applied in my country, Venezuela, when the so-called Socialist Revolution arrived, which caused the destruction of the country's food engine and a marked food shortage.
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 18 Oct 2024
Socialism seems to do that whenever and where ever it is applied. Did the socialist tyrants in Venezuela revert to form and “reduce the population” with lead poisoning? I know they reduced it through exiling a portion of the population. They are still doing that.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Msd0457890 18 Oct 2024
The poisoning has never happened in Venezuela, the immigration situation in my country Venezuela is very present and continues to grow due to the theft of power by the dictator Maduro, I emigrated from there due to the situation which was unbearable.
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 18 Oct 2024
Why don’t the people fight back? Were they disarmed? Who disarmed them and killed their thirst for freedom?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Msd0457890 18 Oct 2024
The people have never been armed, the army, which has the weapons, has always been on the side of the government. The people tried to protest at some point and what they did was repress them, kill them, and lead to mass immigration, which has led to the separation of millions of families.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 19 Oct 2024
Ah …….. yes! The infamous lead pill poison effect. The army in many countries uses this medicine on the local populace whenever told to by the ruling clowns. In these cases perhaps both the politicians and the upper military ranks have to go. Tree ornamentation is a very visual warning and solution.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @987654321 19 Oct 2024
No, it will lead to a healthy black market.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 19 Oct 2024
Yes, you’ve got it! Black markets are healthy markets that THEY don’t like because they are usually can’t be taxed. My thought is, to hell with taxes.
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