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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 5865994" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>Oh god, spare us.</p><p></p><p>Tell me now, why on Earth ANY product or service should have a government bloody quango of all things, to control the price of it?</p><p></p><p>Don't you see that if you do this for milk, any number of muppets will pipe up wanting a price guarantee mechanism? Next it will be Cornish clotted cream ice cream, then a market price guarantee for Nissan Micras, then bloody rolled mild steel, then car insurance... and so on.</p><p></p><p>There is utterly no need for the government to control the price of anything. Why should the UK have the highest price of liquid milk at the farm gate in the world? Just tell me why? As in other sectors, there is a wide range in the cost of production across farms, for whatever reason I know not but why in the hell does the government need to interfere with the marketplace in any way? To do so only costs the tax payer money and forces the consumer to accept a higher price for a product than would otherwise be the case.</p><p></p><p>Supermarkets sell milk as a loss leader? News to me; I am yet to buy milk for less than it is leaving the farm gate for, more to the point, so long as the farmer is getting paid for it, what odds does it make what the supermarkets do with it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 5865994, member: 54866"] Oh god, spare us. Tell me now, why on Earth ANY product or service should have a government bloody quango of all things, to control the price of it? Don't you see that if you do this for milk, any number of muppets will pipe up wanting a price guarantee mechanism? Next it will be Cornish clotted cream ice cream, then a market price guarantee for Nissan Micras, then bloody rolled mild steel, then car insurance... and so on. There is utterly no need for the government to control the price of anything. Why should the UK have the highest price of liquid milk at the farm gate in the world? Just tell me why? As in other sectors, there is a wide range in the cost of production across farms, for whatever reason I know not but why in the hell does the government need to interfere with the marketplace in any way? To do so only costs the tax payer money and forces the consumer to accept a higher price for a product than would otherwise be the case. Supermarkets sell milk as a loss leader? News to me; I am yet to buy milk for less than it is leaving the farm gate for, more to the point, so long as the farmer is getting paid for it, what odds does it make what the supermarkets do with it? [/QUOTE]
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