• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        If those subsidies are coming from the government that means the burden is shifted to taxpayers.

        Which means the common man is not only being grifted at the store with his hard earned, after-tax dollar, the tax portion of his earnings are also being grifted.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    This is completely insane and unsurprising. I’ve always wanted to get my hands on comparisons like these.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Is the drastic upward slope of bread around 2004+ when Loblaws and others started the bread price fixing?

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    The OBVIOUS Solution is to allow these Conglomerates to BUY Competitors! That will Reduce Prices on Consumers and Raise Profits of the Workers!