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Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone

Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.

mabbo 11y ago
Don't misunderstand me, I agree with you- I think it's a bit oppressive that laws like this exist. But I can't understand why, now that it exists and these producers are making so much more money from it, they'd want to dismantle it. Edit a moment later: in regard to "who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.". A: Someone who gets 13% (or 113%) more because of the price fixing.
- iolothebard 11y ago
  Sounds like the mafia. Except jail instead of being maimed/killed.
hackbinary 11y ago
I suppose Mrs Grenier would like her free market system like the one we have in the UK with the Milk production industry where dairy farmers are bullied by the Dairies and large supermarkets for ever lower prices, and is pushing the family run farms to consolidate into massive argi-businesses, controlled by a few people.
- icebraining 11y ago
  Maybe she would? "We're threatening her with jail for her own good" doesn't sound particularly appealing.
vinceguidry 11y ago
> Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Those choices of what they can and can't do with their property is inextricably tied with the existence of the cartel. The cartel does the work to keep prices up, so that's why producers want to grow maple syrup. If there were no cartel, then they wouldn't want to grow maple syrup, or at least they wouldn't be able to make as much money with it. Nobody is helped by these guys rocking the boat. Not consumers, not producers, not the government, not the food industry that wants a steady supply and standards.

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Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone

by iolothebard 11y ago

Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.

mabbo 11y ago
Don't misunderstand me, I agree with you- I think it's a bit oppressive that laws like this exist. But I can't understand why, now that it exists and these producers are making so much more money from it, they'd want to dismantle it. Edit a moment later: in regard to "who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.". A: Someone who gets 13% (or 113%) more because of the price fixing.
- iolothebard 11y ago
  Sounds like the mafia. Except jail instead of being maimed/killed.
hackbinary 11y ago
I suppose Mrs Grenier would like her free market system like the one we have in the UK with the Milk production industry where dairy farmers are bullied by the Dairies and large supermarkets for ever lower prices, and is pushing the family run farms to consolidate into massive argi-businesses, controlled by a few people.
- icebraining 11y ago
  Maybe she would? "We're threatening her with jail for her own good" doesn't sound particularly appealing.
vinceguidry 11y ago
> Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property. Those choices of what they can and can't do with their property is inextricably tied with the existence of the cartel. The cartel does the work to keep prices up, so that's why producers want to grow maple syrup. If there were no cartel, then they wouldn't want to grow maple syrup, or at least they wouldn't be able to make as much money with it. Nobody is helped by these guys rocking the boat. Not consumers, not producers, not the government, not the food industry that wants a steady supply and standards.