Healthcare, college tuition, and childcare prices exploded with heavy government involvement.
TVs, smartphones, and clothing prices collapsed through market competition.
Subsidies create donor lobbies that push costs higher.
Neglected sectors face real competition and innovation pressure.
Pattern holds across decades of data on price changes.
Everything government subsidizes gets expensive, from medical to college to childcare.
And everything they neglect gets cheap, from TV's to cellphones to clothes.
Because subsidies breed donors, and donors breed costs. https://t.co/XncyhFGieT
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) July 7, 2026