Price Controls on the Enemy

As there should be, there is a limited supply of political energy in this country, and for some reason, the American Right has decided to spend an inordinate amount of it defending a man who is now serving nothing except for his own boredom and his own ego. At some point, conservative-leaning voters are going to notice that all Trump cares about now is the pretense that he won the election of 2020, and that, in order to push that idea, he will happily destroy anything and everything that gets in his way. Until then, I must ask: Are you not tired of this crap?--Cooke

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According to Macmillan Cancer Support, around 30,000 fewer people in England started cancer treatment between March and August 2020 than in the same period in 2019. Two years on, the UK is counting the tragic cost in additional deaths and a health service struggling to catch up. As the country with one of the worst records in cancer survival in Europe before Covid, the UK now lags yet further behind.

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GM recently projected the IRA tax credits will add $3,500 to $5,500 in profit to each EV.

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Price Controls on the Enemy

The Europeans have capped the price of Russian oil at $60 a barrel. The Russians will be damaged but may refuse to be dictated to and might withhold oil which will cause shortages.

The customer has capped the price of a product.

It is a product it can not do without. And shortages will result.

Why is it that the elites know that price controls will hurt producers when they are enemies but not when they are fellow citizens?

And why are they certain they will cause shortages only when they are enemies?