A $1,000 per month cash handout would grow the U.S economy by $2.5 trillion, new study says

[Pyro as Bill]

Superman4 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Nobody taught you that price controls are the quickest way to make a bad situation worse?

Bakers make bread for 9 cents and sell for 10 cents. Government increases money supply causing inflation. It now costs bakers 10 cents to make bread and they have to sell at 11 cents. Gov decrees bread must be capped at 10 cents (no profit for the bakers). Bakers stop making bread for the poor and bake cakes for the rich instead. No bread on shelves but black market bread is available at 20 cents (risk-reward cost for breaking law). The poor starve, the rich get cheaper cake. Socialism wins again.

...Once an item becomes required or mandatory it needs to 100% be regulated and pricing controlled.

...Price controls on items like housing, not on food or food ingredients. 

Food isn't required/mandatory?

If houses only cost 20K to build but 1M to buy why don't people build instead of buying?