You are correct. Yet another case where the government screws up the free market and where new laws will have lots of adverse unintended consequences that myopic lawmakers are blind to.

Either what you said or they will just dramatically raise existing fees and/or impose new ones. Either way they will get their money or they will go out of business. Government needs to stop meddling in the free market for credit and most other arenas too actually.

The CPI is a lie. Does that inflation calculator website that you used factor the CPI lie or some other measure such as the PPi or the more accurate shadowstats values?

Ummm. The problem is you won't know you will see two men French kiss until they actually do, and by then its already too late. Your only choice is to stop looking AFTER you've already seen them start kissing. Most straight men do find homosexual acts between men gross. Anytime I see it in a film or a show I stop watching it permanently.

It came from CHINA. Indisputable.

The approach in the case you mentioned is for the DOJ to break up the duopoly/monopoly so that free market competition can work its magic. The incorrect approach is to essentially socialize the market by having the government provide the service or subsidize the service or fix prices.

yes, i would support cancelling fossil fuel subsidies.

exactly

Not the proper role of government. The proper government response is to stay out.

Price fixing by government always leads to shortages and black markets as producers pull out. The invisible hand is best for price discovery. NY state government officials are inept. The problem isn't capitalism, the problem is government and crony capitalist.

The utterance of the words "I identify as " is not some magical incantation that magically transforms that person into X. We've all figured out that the emperor has no clothes and we are no longer going to kowtow to these mentally ill people anymore who want to redefine words like gender, woman, man, male, female, etc in order to turn their delusions and fantasies into reality. Don't even get me started on the pronoun insanity.

Exactly. My former employer, a 1500+ employee high tech publicly traded company, bragged during an all hands meeting that they were hiring people through recruitment firms that discriminated based on race and gender (no whites, East Asians, or men allowed). Then I realized that was why we couldn't ever seem to hire get any qualified engineers for years. The HR director said that DEI was "very dear to her heart". I told her publicly we should hire based on merit only. I also told her that in order to be "inclusive" that the company should celebrate international mens day, not just international womens day. She had me immediately fired. The backlash was so huge from all the other engineers who liked me and depended on my work that she was either fired or resigned a few days later. Company had to shut down a $50M high-tech development program and layboff about 30 people mostly engineers just because they couldn't find anyone qualified to take over my work. Go woke go broke. DEI is done folks. Go watch Matt Walsh's "Am I racist?" and "What is a woman?". If you're one of those losers who went into debt to get one of those worthless degrees (gender studies, Africana studies, etc) that made you DEI certified, then I feel sorry for you. Time for you to work at Starbucks rather than getting paid to promote antiwhitism and misandry.

Yup. It also violates title IX. Obvious.

Diversity and inclusion are not necessarily a source of strength. That depends on whether or not said diverse things (cultural elements, ideas, traditions, etc) are actually good based on their own merits. Only good things should actually be praised, adopted or "included". People who have less in common with each other are more likely to contend with one another, and less likely to achieve unity and consensus. There is strength in unity, but not necessarily diversity.

Prices are a function of supply and demand. The fact that electricity prices have fallen so low is not something that should necessarily be celebrated if the reason is due to lack of industrial/manufacturing demand for electricity. Lack of manufacturing in first world nations is typically due to excessive regulations or taxes, both of which are really bad!