U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by JumpCrisscross on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:57AM (#50486289)

I'm a huge fan of a household allotment to a reasonable amount followed by market rates for everyone. We can start with water and electricity.

Every household gets X gallons of water a month at a regulated rate. After that, everyone competes equally.

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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by irishcoffee on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:32PM (#50488564)

Lots of people are in well water and lots of people have solar.

Regulation and increased taxes/fees just make everything more obtuse and expensive, not better or simpler.

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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by vkou on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:22PM (#50489110)

Simpler isn't always the thing to optimize for when people can't afford to heat their homes.

But you're right, we could also solve this problem very simply, without gradiated utility rates, by taxing the crap out of corporate profits and redistributing them to everyone else. This would punish corps who aren't building data centers, but if you don't mind turning the whole country into an AI server farm, I guess that would work too.

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