Do you have reading comprehension? I was responding to "It's a free market" - that is not a free market by definition.
Gasoline prices are massively distorted by the government. Steel prices are massively distorted by the government. Every price is massively distorted by the government, by changes in the markets, by the weather, by disasters.
I don't disagree with that, but the solution is not to introduce the biggest distortion in the history of the country that will only lead to inflation, government debt and companies going out of business or shrinking. If this became permanent, it would be a bigger distortion than all other government distortions combined. The only reason *anyone* is still working that makes less than $50k/year (half the country) is people think it will end.