Americans loathe lines. See their disdain for the gasoline lines of the 1970s, and that were an effect of price controls naively meant to contain the cruel effects of a devalued dollar.
What’s funny and sad at the same time about the gasoline lines is that per Hedrick Smith’s The Russians, the Soviets of the 1970s suffered lines for everything. Which is a statement of the obvious. Central planning is central planning, and its cruel effects are uniform across market goods.
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