[Investment Biker]

You know that the same thing could be done with vitamins. Sell them at cost to all those over 65. If the buyer is under 65 then sell them at list and have a surcharge to to subsidize the sales to seniors. I like the idea.

[FormerLib]

I like the idea.

Sounds like "From each, according to his abilities. To each, according to his needs."

If memory serves me correctly, the practice doesn't work so well in the real world.

People under 65 stop buying the inflated vitamins in favor of more economically priced alternatives, leaving you with the choice of raising prices on additional goods in order to finance the new vitamin-subsidy/entitlement to the seniors.