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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a $10 bottle of salad dressing that was $5 less than a year ago.

[b]Now what? What will a Harris administration do to fix that?[/b][/quote]

What will Trump do? She's going after price gouging. Can't do anything about the past -- which, as you know, affected every other country as well and with a worse recovery than the U.S.[/quote]

"She's going after..."

What does that even mean?[/quote]

Supporting the House and Senate to pass anti-price-gouging bills.

The Dems offered one up post COVID and the GOP voted it down.

So, try again but this time, hopefully with a majority in both the House and Senate.[/quote]

Uh, it's a product or service.  Purchase it or don't.

There's no such thing as price gouging. No one is forcing you to buy anything.

This is really f'n basic stuff.[/quote]

So when COVID happens and the same milk or egg price triples, there is nothing that should be done about it?

Y'all been complaining about "inflation" for 3 years. The inflation passed, this is price gouging the consumer.[/quote]

Nope. Nothing can be done.

If you tell me I have to sell X for $Y, I'll walk away and sell somewhere else.  You'll create black markets and shortages.[/quote]

Eggs and milk receive government subsidies. To turn around and triple prices "because you can" is a total rip-off to the American consumer. Same with the subsidies agribusiness and oil receive. Maybe we should just remove all the subsidies then?[/quote]

Eggs do not receive direct subsidies. The federal government does buy agricultural food products including those used in nutrition programs. I'm not sure of the mechanics of the WIC program (which includes eggs) but at least some of it involves competitive bidding.

The USDA buys powdered milk, cheese and butter as well for the purpose of maintaining minimum price supports, but this does not stop dairy farmers from often discarding milk because of the low prices they get.

There are marketing boards for several kinds of farm products--beef, pork, eggs, milk are the ones I know of. This uses checkoff programs where a nominal tax is collected when commodities are sold--for beef it is $1 per head. These are established via producer referendums (i.e. sent to ag producers--there are a number of special census reports farmers complete reporting their production of everything from fruit to nuts with cheese and grain and hay and cattle and sheep and bees included).

185 crops are eligible to be covered under federal crop insurance, which is often required by farm lenders. This does not include animal products, just crops. The policies are sold by insurance agencies but supported by the feds. Claims can be denied based on whether the operator used good farming practices. This has been a problem for sustainable practices that use cover crops as the USDA has not caught up to those practices, which then limits access to not just insurance but lending for those farmers.

Egg prices reflect multiple factors but the biggest is avian flu, which also affects poultry in general. High egg prices have nothing to do with federal subsidies. 
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