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In fact we should set absolute fixed wages for every job in America. As well as all prices, for everything.
Nixon tried that, way back when Republicans prided themselves on their utter ignorance of economics. The program didn't just crash and burn. It suffered a sudden and gratuitous Total Existence Failure. Any student in a freshman class in economics receiving a grade of at least a "C" could easily explain why that is only to be expected.
After that, of course, Republicans started pretending there was such a thing as "free markets", somehow supposing that would seem more credible that advocating the existence of double-headed pixies.
You make plenty of your own spectacular errors, so many that you really don't need to repeat the failures of utterly humiliated late Republican colleagues.
