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3. Yes. And we can see it happening today, w/ the so called inflation not being caused by

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 28, 2023, 11:31 AM

Jul 2023

resource constraints etc., but greed, 'hey, lets increase the prices because we can!'.

And I suspect that this is worse than in prior years being that the tax codes for the wealthy has been stripped down, thus, more dollars to the bottom line means more money in the wallets of these companies, the 1%ers.

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