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To: grundle

Democrats propose starvation as a price cutting strategy.

A logical evolution of socialism.


2 posted on 03/26/2026 4:56:17 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Price caps have been tried before. If they are high, they are useless, if they are low, they lead to shortages.
See Soviet Union, Cuba, etc.


13 posted on 03/26/2026 5:21:35 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: sphinx

I went to East Berlin, before the wall came down, and stopped at a state shoe store. There were at most 50 pairs of shoes, and the line to come in the store went around the block. I talked to a local and asked him that if buying shoes is this hard, then how do you buy a car? He said you pay cash first, and then you wait seven years. There was one model car with a choice of 3 colors, but he told me you take whatever comes up first. He then extolked to me how great communism was. Health care was free. I am sure is was great health care.


15 posted on 03/26/2026 5:24:48 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ED)
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