The Daily Chart: Who’s the Real Gouger?

It is a fact that the public never seems to grasp that government makes vastly more on the sale of each gallon of gasoline than the oil companies and refiners do, in the form of excise and sales taxes. If the government really wanted to make gasoline more affordable, they might suspend their taxes in the summer, when seasonal demand drives up the price. This step is never proposed.

Likewise, the Biden-Harris regime is blaming “price gouging” by food producers and grocers for higher food costs, and right now the proposed merger between Albertsons and Kroger is being held up with the old antitrust elixir that was not so long ago understood to the largely defunct. About that price gouging:

Just think how much lower food prices will be once Harris institutes price controls. A reminder for slow learners:

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