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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish41•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-2•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoThey sometimes do those things except hoarding. It is 100% capitalism thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-4•9 months agoOh yeah price cap. I’m sure that would’ve solved all our problems
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•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