Ahmadinejad is a demagogue just like so many of our “promise the moon” politicians. Let’s see, Iran must be paying $1.50 to import gasoline and selling it for 40 cents. Where is that $1+ going to come from? Since taxes would make it obvious even to the poor and stupid that elected him, it’s another tool of the demagogue- printing money(inflation). The savings of the poor and midle class disappear right out of their bank account without them noticing the inflation tax. Then he can blame the price increases on the gas stations and the shopkeepers- more scapegoats to cover his demagoguery.
Since rationing causes enormous misallocation of resources/fuel, the people who don’t really need the gas, will start selling it to those that do on the free market(usually called black market by the demagogues) They will be called speculators, profeteers, gougers etc. , just like people who were supplying badly needed generators in Louisiana, got prosecuted and jailed. In Iran, probably there will be executions until even then nothing works and the whole socialist subsidy and price control that got the whole thing started is done away with and the free market rules. Communist regimes wouldn’t last very long, if the West didn’t give them 100s of billions of dollars in loans and aid. Even North Korea gets millions of our taxes right now. We need to have an enemy, how else will the enormous millitary budget,taxes and debt get justified? We have to watch out for demagogues, we have plenty of them here. Hillary voted for the war in Iraq and all the anointed “front runner” republicans are of the same big government sort. The only real small government candidate is Ron Paul. If you don’t want the Un one world government to keep sending our troops to die in police actions and do away with our constitution, vote accordingly.
