Maximum Cost

[Dan1 (Dan~)]

This is a very simple thread.
We are familiar with minimum wage.
However, there is no such thing as maximum price, for products and services.
Do you think there should be a maximum price for things like food and gas?

[Tyrannus]

@Dan~

This is a very simple thread.
We are familiar with minimum wage.
However, there is no such thing as maximum price, for products and services.
Do you think there should be a maximum price for things like food and gas?

Shhh…!

Don’t give them anymore ideas!

They control everything already way too much!

[phyllo]

Price controls have been used.

Price controls are governmental restrictions on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market. The intent behind implementing such controls can stem from the desire to maintain affordability of staple foods and goods, to prevent price gouging during shortages, and to slow inflation, or, alternatively, to insure a minimum income for providers of certain goods or a minimum wage. There are two primary forms of price control, a price ceiling, the maximum price that can be charged, and a price floor, the minimum price that can be charged.

Historically, price controls have often been imposed as part of a larger incomes policy package also employing wage controls and other regulatory elements.

Although price controls are sometimes used by governments, economists usually agree that price controls don’t accomplish what they are intended to do and are generally to be avoided.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls