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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
That's a truism.
Trying to freeze the final prices would just increase the cost cutting pressure.
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But they would cut as much as they could anyway. They want to put prices as high as they possibly can and get the highest possible margins they can and the market is broken so the normal forces that would reign them in, people wanting a cut of those excessive margins for example, don't seem to apply. They rose by 8% this year but wholesale prices didn't and nor did the green taxes. They just rose because they could.
Miliband might be wrong to implement price controls but the current government's faith in the free market solving everything is misplaced.