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Use the anti monopoly laws we have in place to prevent price gouging from lack of competition

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He issued an executive order in 2021 to do just that, among many other things to promote competition. There has definitely been an uptick in antitrust cases since then, and inflation has also decreased significantly.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-case-filings

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Sorry to be pedantic on the internet (lol) but it might be more accurate to say inflation has slowed.

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Up like a rocket down like a parachute.

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He picked two points in time and described a number that was fixed at each instance, so decreased works fine.

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Burn the pedant!

I still think decreased is accurate though, the rate of inflation is significantly smaller today vs then, so the rate has decreased

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The bipartisan PPP (passed under Trump) was insane.

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lets add taxing the shit out of people who do this to the list.

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How would you like the President of the United States to do that? Do you think the President is a dictator that can just unilaterally pass sweeping legislation? How do you think the public would react if the President had the power to directly determine the prices of goods? How do you think that would go in general?

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The fact this is even in the negatives a tiny bit really demonstrates the typical political intelligence of your average voter.

You’re of course completely correct, and Biden has indeed done everything he LEGALLY can do, which is probably why we’re suffering far less than a lot of the rest of the developed world economically speaking.

People just like to shout at the wind, it seems.

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