Is it REALLY the working people who are spending or is it the wealthy,corporations and extremely comfortable who are spending so much money? They have a LOT of money to spend and raising interest rates won't stop them. They have piles of cash grom the last several years of increased prices to working people. Are we using the correct meas…
Is it REALLY the working people who are spending or is it the wealthy,corporations and extremely comfortable who are spending so much money? They have a LOT of money to spend and raising interest rates won't stop them. They have piles of cash grom the last several years of increased prices to working people. Are we using the correct measurements for inflation or is it time to look at that and see how we can entice corporations to pay working people higher wages and better benefits? Anything done to reduce their runaway profits will oy result in them raising our prices AGAIN.
We could start by restoring corporate income taxes to more than 3 times what they are now. We have antitrust laws that could be used to reverse the corporate consolidations that give them the monopoly power to raise prices at will. Capitalism only works with competitive markets. Worst case, use price controls for the worst offenders.
Maybe ad hoc ones are not effective, however, if they are more 'concentrated' with larger groups of people who rely on 'junk food' for cheap food and are taught better choices for the same money, that can and will shift.
Ditto, I also have a list of companies that I avoid.
by the same companies who offer poor and limited choices is also not good corporate practice nor should it be acceptable to any thinking person.......flies in the face of every aspect of what America was founded to be.
Is it REALLY the working people who are spending or is it the wealthy,corporations and extremely comfortable who are spending so much money? They have a LOT of money to spend and raising interest rates won't stop them. They have piles of cash grom the last several years of increased prices to working people. Are we using the correct measurements for inflation or is it time to look at that and see how we can entice corporations to pay working people higher wages and better benefits? Anything done to reduce their runaway profits will oy result in them raising our prices AGAIN.
We could start by restoring corporate income taxes to more than 3 times what they are now. We have antitrust laws that could be used to reverse the corporate consolidations that give them the monopoly power to raise prices at will. Capitalism only works with competitive markets. Worst case, use price controls for the worst offenders.
The other option are 'boycotts' refuse to buy from 'supermarkets' what they offer and you will soon notice the product removed or prices dropped.
Remove the demand, the supply changes.....simple.
Except boycotts have never been very effective. I do have a list of companies I try to avoid.
Maybe ad hoc ones are not effective, however, if they are more 'concentrated' with larger groups of people who rely on 'junk food' for cheap food and are taught better choices for the same money, that can and will shift.
Ditto, I also have a list of companies that I avoid.
Also corralling people into 'food deserts' https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts
by the same companies who offer poor and limited choices is also not good corporate practice nor should it be acceptable to any thinking person.......flies in the face of every aspect of what America was founded to be.