Letters to the Editor – Market Forces, Choices

In a free-market economy where things are determined by supply and demand and based on costs of doing business, for the gov­ernment to artificially control prices of cer­tain items is untenable.

The prices of these items will change – ei­ther increase or decrease – based on market forces, freight costs, warehousing, and trans­portation costs and the like.

Whether they have VAT or not is not a con­sideration.

Artificially controlling prices does not make it a free and fair economy but makes it a basket case like North Korea and the for­mer Soviet Union.

We all know what happens in those sorts of countries.

The forces of nature will bring about the right prices, not the FCCC or the govern­ment.

So, you just must live with the choices you make.

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