Quote:If you support the federal government telling private businesses to what they are allowed to set their profit margins, then that will work.  If you don't support that, then doing all of that is pointless and all that you are doing is spinning your wheels and causing inflation.  And if we step in that direction, we might as well just move to socialism.

 

The government doesn't need to tell businesses how much profit they can make, the government just needs to break up the mega corps so that there are a lot of players in every market.

 

Beyond that, though, the prices won't get out of hand because they have to actually sell product. There's a point of equilibrium, and businesses would find it. Competition and labor/wage laws would keep them honest.

 

As an aside recall when Papa John said he'd have to pass on 14cents per pizza to customers in order to provide health care coverage for people working in his company?

 

Literally around 1% of the cost of a large pizza with decent toppings.

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