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by mvc 1392 days ago
They are making record profits

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62382624

Not from any particular clerverness. Or increase in productivity. Purely because of abnormal market conditions due to a war waged by a dictator they have collaborated with for the last 20 odd years.

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That doesn't mean that taxes would lower prices, or keep them the same. Taxes raise prices.

Also, that article doesn't make sense to me. What stopped the prices rising before?