Kind of feels good to let the inner socialist out, doesn't it?
Liberals piously claim they do not share the socialist ambition of state control of the means of production, but the idea of a President being able to crush a corporation by decree thrills them no end.
"Voluntary price controls" my ass. In the world of the Left, there is no "voluntary."
However, it should be remembered that. ironically, it was Richard Nixon who, in one of the greatest acts of betrayal of Republican principles in the past fifty years, finally instituted wage and price controls.
The best solution would be to pry the economic sector of our society loose from the grip of government. Period.