2. These are the policy choices that created the current pandemic profiteering: a) initial denial of problem (which created much more severe pandemic b) refusal to use Defense Productions Act to comandeer medial supplies c) Darwinian federalism.
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3. By Darwinian federalism I mean the Trump decision not to centralize medical supply distribution but rather to tell the states to look after own needs, creating a situation where there is a competition for supplies, driving up prices.
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4. More thoughts on pandemic profiteeringhttps://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-business-coronavirus-profiteering/ …
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Are they getting kick backs? Stock options in the myriad companies in Delaware? There has to be a trail of corruption that leads back to the West Wing.
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How long until we see Trump Masks and Trump Ventilators to go along with Trump Steaks?
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Is "natural gouging" a feature of Late Stage Capitalism?
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In other disasters there's been price gouging despite government efforts to prevent it. Now we have a government enabling and encouraging price gouging. The private sector set free to do what it does best: generate profit.
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Why is this not THE story?
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