Town Bank: Control prices? When dealing with other countries perhaps, not in a free market society. Unless you’ve gone in and examined the books of every company you’re talking about controlling prices on, you know nothing about their profit margin, or costs to run that business. Don’t mistake price increases for costs due to increased regulation for inflation. Small businesses can’t afford compliance with all the regulation. When small businesses are gone and we’re all at the Mercy of the Monopoly thats left and we’re all paying higher prices, and can’t go back, will you be happy then?