US government be like:

Cut government spending, eliminate the budget deficit and begin paying down the national debt.

usdebtclock.org

First Trump has recommended increasing taxes on the wealthy while lowering them on the middle class and poor. Food is already taxed. Politically neutral studies have revealed that price gouging is not a real thing inside the U.S.; that it is actually the dramatic rise in fuel costs and also a result of foreign governments raising their own prices on goods exported to the U.S.; which thanks to leftist policies has almost no manufacturing of much of anything anymore happening inside its own borders.

You need to read more.. AYN RAND was right she knew .... Directive 10-289
The purpose of Directive 10-289 is to arrest the country's economic decline by freezing the economy in its current state. The directive makes it illegal for workers to leave their current jobs and prevents businessmen from closing their doors.

THE JIMMY CARTER PROGRAM , price controls were tried in the 70s by Carter.. It got him 1 term and still hated today.

Asshole froze everything, even raises !
(Well, except interest rates)
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15% interest 22% inflation Phony gas shortage .. Typical DEMrat mode of operation ..Oh and let IRAN hosteges rott for 400+ days..

Parading those hostages every night? "Almost" got me to sign up to "fight"
I was young and dumb

Someone doesn’t understand the economy

Lower minimum wage and you will see prices drop.