Wally,
You’re right we can’t be afraid of the libertarians screaming wage and price controls when the vast majority of “free” market theoretics is a delusion and a complete misnomer for what we actually face economically which is alternately goosed and strangled dominating financial chaos from which only the banks and the uber wealthy emerge unscathed like in 2008.

My 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale is the exact kind of price controls we need because it integrates the normally opposed self interests of merchant and consumer in that the merchant gets not only their entire price they also get a potential doubling of demand for their goods and services, the individual gets a mathematical doubling of their purchasing power and chronic erosive inflation is transformed into beneficial price and asset deflation. And yes, throw in a governent grant like a $1000/mo. universal dividend for everyone 18 and older for life which with the 50% retail discount gives every adult $2000/mo of purchasing power for life. Keep social security that makes everyone a double dipper, but with a universal $2000/mo. purchasing power policy you make the payroll taxes that all employed people and every enterprise pay for welfare and unemployment insurance entirely redundant and so able to be eliminated adding net income to both agents.

Monetary Gifting strategically integrated into the Debt Only system is the paradigm change we need.