Morons, dupes, and fools
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She was joined in her anger by many other readers of her TikTok post, and it’s disheartening, though not surprising, that these consumers can watch their favorite politicians — the ones they voted for — hike the minimum wage; drive up the cost of all fossil-fuel related products, from gasoline and diesel to fertilizer; raise taxes; treble electricity rates; and, in states like California, demand cage-free eggs and poultry and pork (forget caviar; it’s off the menu except for restaurants serving the very wealthy and very famous), and then, faced with paying the price for all these morally-right, earth-saving, meaningless gestures, scream at the food vendors and grocery stores that are passing those costs on to them.
Politicians know that they can always bank on the economic illiteracy of their constituents, which is why we see Biden yelling about “shrinkage: and “price gouging”, and legal whores like our own Richard Blumenthal joining states attorney generals in filing baseless lawsuits against “profiteers”.
Next up: price controls. And then collapse.
