What’s the difference between price controls and a price gouging ban?
What makes you believe it will be beneficial?
Do you have any examples of this policy being successful elsewhere?
Why does it matter what he, personally, does in regards to family values?
Neo-liberalism/soft-socialism/progressivism IS a cult of personality. Always has been, will be, and must be.
To a conservative, it doesn’t matter whether a politician personally does X, Y, or Z. Because a conservative isn’t voting to have X, Y, or Z mandated.
The Progressive wants policies forced upon others, so it actually DOES matter what the politician, personally, does(as even Progressives likely won’t choose to vote for someone who too obviously or flagrantly shows that he lives a life above the law).
Bro, gouging is obviously bad, while controlling is obviously good. Just use “control” and “gouge” in a sentence and see which one sounds worse.
I think it’s pretty obvious that a $2 zerk(this is a hypothetical consumer good, and is not a gender in this context) is more affordable than a $5 zerk.
I do not, but that’s because it hasn’t been tried hard enough.
Great, I’m glad conservatives are pro-choice, and for all drugs being legalized.
Oh shit… Wait… Nvm.
The pro-choice thing involves two lives, so it’s not a simple issue.
I would say that’s the true conservative position. But it’s also outside of family values, which is the context in which I commented. But I admit I didn’t make that clear.
Don’t we already basically provide price controls through massive subsidies (tied to production goals) and govt reserves for gas and agg industries?
Conservatives are notorious for fear-mongering tactics.
Always scared of communism and always complaining about inflation yet scared of having any action being taken.
Always worshipping some corrupt white, orange, or red reptilian looking tyrant for some reason whether it be some business owner or politician.
Same ol same ol.
Food and energy subsidies can be viewed that way, but they also perform a vital function of supply chain continuity for our most vital industries. This is similar to how FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) help preserve other domestic industries like specialty metal production. In the event of war, we need to make as much stuff here as possible, especially the vital stuff. So we buy $8 hex bolts from NATO-sourced ore and NATO mills instead of getting the same thing with Chinese steel for $0.50 at the hardware store.
Price controls are a different animal altogether, and a huge reason why places like Venezuela now face food shortages despite an abundance of arable land.
Prochoice involves 1 life. The mother’s.
If you consider the fetus another life that’s fine, it’s on its own. Conservatives would never mandate that the mother has any duty of care for that fetus though, right?
Drugs are most certainly a family values issue. Drugs can apart families, lead to horrible childhoods, lives of crime etc. But, conservatives would never mandate a restriction on them, right?
No one believes that. Not even the most ardent supporters of abortion.
No, they’re not.
WTF are you talking about? Do you know what abortion is? I don’t think you even know what prochoice is. You just make up things as you go along. You said you had a degree in Gender Studies so you would think you’d know these things.
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Legalized Murder
Not sure why it’s more of a get out of jail free card rather than being heavily regulated and used in super specific life threatening situations for the mother,
Legalized genocide of black babies.
Silly old man, you said that. Did you forget? Have you forgotten to take your pills again?
I asked you and you said you did.
That’s one of those “alternative facts” Kellyanne coined. Did you get the same brain worm as RFK?
Not that there’s anything wrong with a degree in gender studies.
There you go. Now the question is, why do you support the murder of black babies?
Speaking of gender studies, we currently have a Bates College gender studies professor serving on our school committee.
We’ve also fully incorporated gender ideology in our school system. This ideological purity test was recently implemented in the face of an acute shortage of teachers who want to teach in Lewiston.
None of this was a problem until Maine Democrats started getting their radical policies enacted and entrenched. Lewiston used to be a normal American town, with people of all kinds from all places perfectly free to come and go.
Now the people pipeline is set up and working as intended, and the community is expected to fund all of the services promised by Democrat politicians at all levels of government.
“Educated” voters who reliably vote D are now in great abundance.
Generations of peace and stability are gone, as are many of the families who saw to its continuity until recently.
I believe in the joy of learning. Some areas of learning are more useful than others, but value isn’t always about how utilitarian something is. I, personally, wouldn’t pay too much money for a number of degrees, but I think it’d be interesting to sit in a few lectures related to those degrees.
As for black babies, I love em. Well, most of em. Some babies are just little stinky, boring potatoes. It’s true. But I do love a giggly, smiley black baby.
Spoken like a true racist.
You don’t think a giggly, smiley black baby is cute AF?!
How cold is that cast iron heart of yours. Damn!