[central_va]

I told my grocer I was willing to pay $2.00/pd for bacon. I pleaded for cheap bacon but he wouldn’t listen.

[xzins]

Get unsliced with rind and slice it yourself. >)

[tnlibertarian]

To properly apply your analogy of bacon:
Before the pandemic, bacon sold for $5 a pound. Sometimes you could get it on sale for $4/lb. Plenty of bacon for everyone because supply and demand had hit an equilibrium. Then, in response to farmers’ fear over COVID, the federal government started paying farmers $10/lb to destroy their bacon.

Now, you go to the store. No bacon. You ask your butcher, “Where’s the bacon?” He says, “Farmers won’t sell it to us for less than $12/lb. So, if you want bacon, shut up and pay more.”

Now, who is responsible for the increase in price and the bacon shortage. You, who won’t pay more for bacon, you selfish capitalist? Or the government?