It always saddens me of how goverments deal with consumer injustice. Time and time again an issue is left to fester until it becomes fiscally or pr fashionable

It always saddens me of how goverments deal with consumer injustice. Time and time again an issue is left to fester until it becomes fiscally or pr fashionable to do something about it. Then they end up cashing in with a big fine upon the company involved. Goverment gets a nice payout, consumers who have been shafted for years - just end up paying for the shafting and then in many cases, indirectly end up paying for the fine. I'm certainly a bit of a cynic in my age, but I does kinda feel like governments use consumer abuse as a revenue stream thru fines. The only consumer alternative to get financial justice always falls down to class actions/private cases more than not and in process's that takes forever. Frankly I fail to understand why their is no consumer protection as any price increase of over X% in any field should always be investigated. More so the entire drugs industry. Even if that trigger was 100% in a period of a year, it would be a start in preventing such abuse. Which it is blatantly more than not. It's as if such companies are aware of what they are doing, not even illegal drug dealers push their prices up that much upon a captive market. That certainly puts some perspective upon such activities in the legal drug industry.