Reading back in history, didn’t Nixon try something like that? Dunno.
Nixon capped beef prices. The ranchers just shot the cattle.
“Reading back in history, didn’t Nixon try something like that? Dunno.”
He sure did, and that’s why suddenly there were weird shortages of stuff. Plywood, for instance. Then came the workarounds, shrinkflation, the beef industry invented new meat cuts to bypass the controls on certain cuts.