Even better, look inside an Economics or History textbook. Both will explain that political parties do not, and never have set the rate of inflation, the price of gas, or the cost of groceries. The closest I can think of when the government might control prices is when they pay doctors, hospitals, and clinics for care of patients who are Medicare recipients. Which means lower negotiated patient costs, that in turn results in a lower percentage paid by the patient on their bill.
Hawaii has the Med-Quest program which operates in conjunction with Medicaid, lowering costs which are eventually picked up by taxpayers.
HOTPE, the government has set price controls on products and services before (WWII) and currently with things like the PUC that set electrical and phone costs. Inflation is a direct result of trillions on trillions being printed up year over year. Its theft of your wealth by devaluing your money. And its mostly done by our elected reps.
trillions on trillions being printed up year over year. Its theft of your wealth by devaluing your money. And its mostly done by our elected reps.
OK. Our Hawaii reps vote to spend money on healthcare, schools, and public works projects. In other states their reps vote for gigantic tax breaks for the super rich which increases the average person’s tax burden, and trillions for schools, hospitals, prisons, bullets and bombs in Afghanistan & Iraq.
Either way, you’re voting for theft of your wealth. Unless you vote for a third, fourth, or fifth party. Here’s how that works out when you vote for minor party candidates, showing the final results for the 2020 presidential race in Hawaii:
02-16-2022, 04:54 AM (This post was last modified: 02-16-2022, 05:38 AM by Obie.)
Rob must be on vacation.
These years produced the largest price increases I have seen.
When Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977, unemployment had reached 7.4 percent. Carter responded with an ambitious spending program and called for the Federal Reserve (the Fed) to expand the money supply. Within two years, inflation had climbed to 13.3 percent.
Inflation is half way there, lets see if can beat Carter. Go Branden !!!
(02-16-2022, 02:03 AM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: they look outside they MSM bubble.
Even better, look inside an Economics or History textbook. Both will explain that political parties do not, and never have set the rate of inflation, the price of gas, or the cost of groceries. The closest I can think of when the government might control prices is when they pay doctors, hospitals, and clinics for care of patients who are Medicare recipients. Which means lower negotiated patient costs, that in turn results in a lower percentage paid by the patient on their bill.
Hawaii has the Med-Quest program which operates in conjunction with Medicaid, lowering costs which are eventually picked up by taxpayers.
02-16-2022, 06:00 PM (This post was last modified: 02-16-2022, 06:16 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Your auntie invites you over to her house in Hilo for Thanksgiving. You eat turkey, you eat mashed potatoes and gravy, you eat pie and cake. You go into the bathroom and out of curiosity get on her scale - - 190 pounds.
She gives you enough leftovers to take home to Puna and you eat well, really well for a few more days. You start your Christmas shopping, buy a Starbucks chocolate-mint latte vente, ummm. Visits to the relatives are in order, with cookies and chocolates, football games with chips and beer. You and your wife invite guests too so the house and fridge is always full of snacks and treats throughout the month of December.
Then in January there’s football playoffs, more beer, chips, pizza, chicken wings. Now, back to your auntie’s for Super Bowl Sunday. Ummm, what a spread and her guacamole dip is the best! You hop on her bathroom scale again during a commercial break and what the heck! 210 pounds! That’s outrageous! The only thing you can think of that’s different was eating that damn guacamole!
Now after all that time with “zero interest” in watching what you ate, yeah, blame the avocado.
