• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Price controls are an extremely radical concept, themselves. Last thing this economy needs is further distortion.

    The sucky thing about inflation is you have to run through it like an illness.

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      1 year ago

      Windfall taxes. Let them share their gains, that’s the whole point of taxes since society don’t work otherwise.

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        1 year ago

        That’s vastly different from a direct price control, in both intent and effect.

        I’d love to pass lots more taxes but with the current House that’s completely impossible