Monday, January 06, 2014
Reversed prices
Along with juiced measures, we have an epidemic of reversed prices.
I hadn't thought about this until I heard a brief news item about the new Colo pot markets. The 'recreational' markets are selling pot for twice as much as the previously formed 'medical' markets.
This is how it SHOULD be. What do we supposedly want? We want people to go through approved channels. We want them to get prescriptions for drugs, and we want them to have health insurance.
The Colo pot market is the ONLY market that enforces what we supposedly want.
Everywhere else we do the exact opposite. We make brand-name drugs vastly more expensive than generics. We make American-sold drugs vastly more expensive than foreign-bought drugs. We make all American products vastly more expensive (and generally lower quality) than foreign-made products. We make Romneycare premiums twice as high as pre-Romneycare premiums. We make Romneycare premiums 12 times as high as the penalty for not using Romneycare. We make legally bought cigarettes vastly more expensive than illegal (untaxed) cigarettes.
And then we pretend to wonder why so many people choose the illegal or non-approved way of doing things.
The only logical conclusion is that our laws are made by the gangs who benefit from illegal transactions. Good old Bootleggers and Baptists.
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