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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It's just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.

If you want to lower prices, you can't give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup. When gov't does things like this they're only treating a symptom and not the cause of the issue.

[–] NSAbot@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

And making the problem worse in the process