@rbreich Gee … not enough competitive pressure?

Anti-trust laws, regulations, taxation with investment insentives …
all this needs to be stronger…
from a responsible, competent body of legislators acting and speaking on behalf of the best interests of their constituents, and the country…

I think one key objective to get us back to this direction is overturning Citizens United…

Another is regulating lies, and news & media propagating them (harder, but important)…

@rbreich
Somehow this is not surprising.
Remember how in construction there were all kinds of excuses for ridiculous price increase of up to 300%

It was everything from Covid to Ukraine war. Suddenly Ukraine was the only country in the world who could produce what we needed. Even products that had been produced nationally for decades...

And the covid was used to increase the export price but then why was the price of nationally produced goods also increased.

Now It's confirmed. Thanks.

Lets suppose you're absolutely right, what are you going to do about it?

Enact price controls? Maybe that will work, maybe it won't. If the products are made overseas and they can get a better price elsewhere, they won't send them to the US at all.

Investigate the companies? They'll move their headquarters out of the US, they're already not making anything in the states, moving headquarters is basically a formality.

There's a lot of things you can do to "send a message", but nothing you can do will actually make diapers cheaper.... UNLESS you slash regulation and encourage more startups to enter the diaper business and compete.

But if you do that, then you have to walk back on your entire political career.