Re: Three Body Problem

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:48:43 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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"On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris said she has a solution: a federal
ban on price gouging across the food industry."

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Which also has /nothing/ to do with "freezing food prices and making
grocery stores report any changes in their prices".
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You are incorrect. I was also commenting on Lynn, please stick to that.

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I am correct. Please stick to the topic and stop trying to help Lynn
escape the consequences of his TPPT addiction.
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No Paul, you are wrong here. Any common sense interpretation of that text
makes it obvious that Lynn is right and you are wrong.

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Paul is correct.   A ban on price gouging is _not_ the same as
price controls.
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One might even go so far as suggesting that the inability of the
federal government to enforce the anti-trust laws have increased
the frequency of price gouging.  Particularly in the grocery
industry which has overly consolidated over since 1980.

I noted elsewhere that what should have been an unrelated book
reminded me how much of the Federal control was put into place in a
era very much like our own. Anti-trust laws, food content regulation,
associated laws and associated Federal agencies stem from those times.

Perhaps this is the first glimmer of what further Federal controls and
even agencies will be added /this/ time around.

1%-ers, it seems, never learn.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"