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To: apoliticalone
Try to buy Titleist golf balls at a discount. Can’t do it. Manufacturer sets the price.

Until the government forces you to buy titlist, you got nothing to complain about.

If you don't like the set price, don't buy it.

Now health care, that's a whole other thing. Before O'Dumbo started making threaths of gumming takeover, I could afford health insurance. Now, in anticipation of his ineptitude, it doubled in price I can no longer afford it. But it's STILL my choice.

71 posted on 02/12/2011 7:47:43 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Publius6961

A little off topic but yet not when we are discussing issues of non-competitive price fixing.

It is not representative of the free market when a manufacturer can force retailers to sell a product at a certain price point. That’s price fixing, and it is no different from a government price fixing.

The supposed conservative SCOTUS recently overturned 96 years of free market precedent in https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leegin_Creative_Leather_Prods.,_Inc._v._PSKS,_Inc.
by claiming that a manufacturer can indeed set minimal pricing.

This is an example of corporatism muddling conservatism.


73 posted on 02/12/2011 8:29:16 PM PST by apoliticalone (America for Americans, not government for corporatists)
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