I will tell you this with inflation out of hand and post pandemic prices still in place there needs to be some control. Free market and untethered capitalism is as dangerous as Soviet style communism why because the rich always get richer and the poor suffer under either system
These measures fall short of Soviet-style price setting, but they do reflect a populist-mercantilist shift—more command than market, and more interventionist than traditional conservative economics.
@BrandNewMan I'm sorry... but what exactly make you believe that Donald Trump isn't spending? ... The last time he was in power he promised to diminish the national debt... and he added more then 7 trillion, during an economic boom.
Nice try .. every administration spends .. Biden was giving people who hadnt lost a job more than std unemployment, giving money and support to millions of illegal immigrants .. The big blip yr for Trump was 1st year of covid
@peterlee The large corporates are terrified of you, because you decide whether to buy that espresso with the $5 in your purse, or use the money to build your savings, or any of a myriad of ways you might use it.
They ease their fear by convincing you that you actually have no choices.
They win because you believe them... you believe that they're in control.
So why do they spend enormous amounts on focus groups, polls, test groups, market research, advertising agencies, consultants, sales strategies, market share, etc?
@peterlee Not even, they may believe so but they aren't. Same identical thing with ol' fascisms, initially supported by wealthy industrialists that though they could bend it as they deemed fit, but what happened eventually was the exact opposite.
There's already plenty of examples indicating they're moving the same way - e.g. Amazon being effectively forced to back off from the idea of listing the tariff amount separately from the price of each item when Trump didn't like the idea
Ahhhh... so that is how Cry-Baby-trump is making himself feel like he's on the same level as Putin. He's trying to remake America into Russia... Soviet style.
