Free and competitive markets, not government, are what protect consumers
things to be more expensive! The restaurant would like to increase its profits by making its meals more expensive; the hotel wants to charge you more for your stay; the gardener wants to invoice you more for mowing your lawn; the homeowner wants his house to sell for as much as possible; and McDonald’s, Tim Horton’s, Second Cup, and Starbucks would all like to make more money by having us pay more for coffee.
If it’s not the government that keeps coffee prices low, then is it the benevolence of McDonald’s shareholders that leads them to accept lower profits by supplying us with cheap coffee? Certainly not. No less than other companies’ shareholders, they want to do as well for themselves as possible.
Let’s take, for example, one of the federal government’s favourite programs: child care. It is said by politicians everywhere and of all stripes that the government is making child care “more affordable” by spending more money on it. But something does not become more affordable by virtue of our being forced to pay for it with our taxes instead of voluntarily choosing to buy it.
Wait times for surgery, hallway health care, road congestion, military procurement, government-protected agricultural cartels, green energy disasters and, worst of all, our public school systems, which have become ever more expensive even as educational quality has declined, all demonstrate the failure of government control. Child care is no different. Thanks to the federal government, we will pay more for worse child care.
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