Posted on 03/26/2026 4:53:52 PM PDT by grundle
On Thursday, the Center for American Progress, a prominent left-leaning think tank that often cultivates policy ideas later adopted by the Democratic Party, proposed a two-year freeze on the prices of 22 food items, such as strawberries and steak.
“Price caps interfere with the very basics of a capitalist economy,” said Steven Kaimin, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute who read the Center for American Progress paper before its publication. “Maybe it’s impossible to produce eggs at $3. Maybe the cost of producing them is $3.50. In which case the eggs come off the market entirely, or … only the cheapest producers can sell at $3, and then the supermarket puts them out at $3, and they sell an hour later, and everybody else goes and sees empty shelves.”
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Why don’t we call this what it is?
Democrats who don’t work or produce much
can’t pay the going rate and want to
stick the rest of us with their failures.
Prices are going to go up per Democrat
government produced auto inflation.
I have never figured out why any price
inflation is good for the economy.
I always thought
increased efficiency and cheaper
prices were good things.
In any event EFF the Democrats!
If gas floats to $8 per gallon
so be it. Markets will adjust
Democrats will suffer, I won’t.
If they do that then we will have empty shelves.
Yes because they’re communists. 🙄
Egg shortage coming. Buy TP Now! :)
My wife was working at Montgomery Ward days before price controls were instituted. The management had everybody in the store with their little sticker guns marking everything up in the store in anticipation of price controls. Instant 10% inflation.
Pinochet had the right idea for dealing with commies.
Exactly.
For basic foodstuffs the capitalist system works quite well.
To be able to get a dozen eggs for $1.66 is quite a feat.
It was tried in the early 70’s.
YES. Do it. Come one democrats.... Cap those prices.
FYI. I just bought four dozen eggs. 99 cents a dozen. Gonna eat one, pickle two, and freeze the other. They work great scrambled raw then put in ice cue trays.
Empty shelves strategy.
Price caps cause shortages. This is Economics 101.
Since this is about prices, I’ll tell you about one little trick I saw at Walmart. Won’t mmention the item, but to say I paid $1.64 for it. On the shelf it was marked down from about $2.64. Truth of the matter was that I used to pay(possibly a year ago) $1.00. I guess they were trying to make you think you were getting a bargain instead of a shafting & didn’t figure anybody kept track of past prices. Now, I have to wonder if they were also doing this on other items. This is the first time I had noticed this little deviation.
Another once-taboo item: bring back the poor black slaves that Demoncrats loved.
Brilliant! Government is much of the problem and more government is their solution.
Since Trump was elected, the usual sales competition between those two stores has completely vanished.
Store prices increase at both stores, almost automatically, every couple months.
Modestly priced chain store substitute brands have almost all disappeared from the shelves.
This is an affluent urban neighborhood, so Home Delivery may also have some impact.
On the other hand, I suspect that corporate leadership have silently agreed to relentlessly increase prices - then - blame the inflation on Trump, with plenty of help from the Hard Left news media.
There will be plenty of Freepers soon enough whining for export bans on oil and natural gas which is another form of price caps. We will hear no end to “our oil” and “natural gas” should not be sold overseas. It s coming along with grain exports.
We already restrict imports in the name of preserving “our jobs”. Why not exports?
I guess you are globalist Free TRAITOR. Exporting oil is muy stupido.
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