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minus-squareAzPsycho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down2·9 months agoRepublicans I know: “Gas is too high and it’s Bidens fault!” Me: “Actually, 203 Republicans voted against a bill to stop predatory gas prices and 0 voted to support it.” Republicans I know: “Cause it’s too expensive to enforce. We all know it’s another govt law to hold over us.” Fucking idiots.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·9 months agoNot saying this bill was a price cap, but, price caps and other forms of price control don’t exactly have a good record of working instead of creating scarcity, hoarding, and aftermarket sales.
minus-squareuis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·9 months agoThey sometimes do those things except hoarding. It is 100% capitalism thing.
minus-squareLiquidAurum@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·9 months agoOh yeah price cap. I’m sure that would’ve solved all our problems
minus-squareBigNote@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoIt wasn’t a price cap. It was about gouging during natural disasters like hurricanes.
Republicans I know: “Gas is too high and it’s Bidens fault!”
Me: “Actually, 203 Republicans voted against a bill to stop predatory gas prices and 0 voted to support it.”
Republicans I know: “Cause it’s too expensive to enforce. We all know it’s another govt law to hold over us.”
Fucking idiots.
Not saying this bill was a price cap, but, price caps and other forms of price control don’t exactly have a good record of working instead of creating scarcity, hoarding, and aftermarket sales.
They sometimes do those things except hoarding. It is 100% capitalism thing.
Grain hoarding happened in the USSR.
Oh yeah price cap. I’m sure that would’ve solved all our problems
It wasn’t a price cap. It was about gouging during natural disasters like hurricanes.
It does in Europe