Well the commie party line never changes. At least its consistent and you always know what to expect. :-)
If I only want 2-3 choices for any category, I’ll go to Aldi’s to buy everything.
If I want that particular Asian style chicken dinner or 50 choices of soda, I will go to the main grocery store.
If I want 10 choices of soda and 4 of spaghetti sauce types, I go to Walmart.
But I can currently choose my range of selection, as well as the product I want. The retailers with fewer choices have lower average prices because of reduced inventory costs. In short, choice costs.
But when the government comes in and says “you can only have 5 types of soda, all approved by the state”, that’s not even socialism, it is communism.
I thought Bernie’s economic plan was to reduce the number of brands of underarm deodorant and tennis shoes.
It is stunning that Europe has learned from it socialist experiment gone bad, but the U.S., led by its Socialist-In-Chief, Barrack Obama, sadly has steered to the left. Socialism is a failed philosophy.
It fails to account for the human tendency to free-ride on others, or the propensity for governments to dole out favors to the politically well connected and get ever larger and less efficient. Socialist economies by definition do not innovate, do not allocate capital efficiently, and tend to reward risk avoidance rather than risk taking. Socialist systems also tend to engender a massive political class that sucks an ever larger share of productive output into the hands of those who wield power.
Yes, free-markets and capitalism have problems which can and should be addressed with reasonable regulation. But there is no way to regulate bloated, power-hungry, resource devouring socialist systems which are driven by the same self-interests as capitalism, only without the free-market to act as a check or balance on that power. The U.S. is swinging to the left at its own peril.
That freakin’ Commie Sanders should be in the Federation Council, the Russia counterpart to the U.S. Senate.
Deodorant spray? Bernie is delusional.