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Originally Posted by Donger
So are food and shelter, even more so. Should they be regulated/price fixed?
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Well, the governement doesn't fix the price of food per se, but there is a lot of legislation that insures that every american can get food, through farm subsidies, food stamps, etc.. So I'd say food isn't a good example.
There are a lot of neccessities that the government ensures will be available/affordable for us. But almost all of those things are products that this country can provide on it's own. We can't do that with oil. We can't force other countries to sell it to us for cheaper, and we can't force refineries to make gas without profit. If anything, price controls would force subsidies for the refineries, which would just raise our taxes and probably cost us more in the long run.