Discuss the idea of price controls

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Written response discuss the idea of price controls. You read about this in this week's unit, and our text referred to price controls as Price Ceilings and Price Floors. Read the article Should the government control the Price of food and gas? on CNN.com and reflect on this.

State that you agree with the idea of price controls, and why. Give an example of a time in your life when you experienced a price control and how it affected you: gas prices as a new young driver who has to pay for their own gas.

Ask a question for your classmates to answer about price controls.

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