[Interesting Times]

This is the approach that worked so well in the old Soviet Union.

[rlmorel]

Yep. The best way to guarantee a shortage of anything, be it jobs, food, gas or drugs is to increase the government involvement in the production and delivery of that item.

You can look at the entire spectrum of socialist economic activity in history, or you can just look at the way the USA handled petroleum products with price controls in the Seventies.

No need to guess how it is going to work.