Posted on 09/06/2024 5:04:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What does “full communist” even mean to generations of young people who have no idea what communism has wrought in the world?
Kamala Harris has “vowed to lower prices at the grocery store with price controls and open up the increasingly out-of-reach housing market with tax subsidies for homebuyers.” Harris asserts that she “will work to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food. Her plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.”
As a result, Donald Trump said that Harris has gone “full communist.”
But what does “full communist” even mean to generations of young people who have no idea what communism has wrought in the world?
At the American Institute for Economic Research a reader learns that:
Most people in [communist] Cuba are skipping meals [.] These shortages of food are intimately linked with socialist governments, related economic policies, and, in particular, price controls.
In July, Cuban authorities imposed a new round of price controls on powdered milk, chicken, and pasta, among other goods. Vendors in Cuba are now not allowed to sell chicken parts above a price of 680 pesos, whereas market prices are typically around 700 pesos.
Price controls are huge red flags. These are not red flags celebrating socialism. Price control’s reddest flags relate to the nature of exchange, morality, and freedom [emphasis mine].Price controls increase poverty and hunger. Contrary to the utopian dreams of policymakers, price controls distort market activity in perverse ways.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Kamunism would blame breadlines on the greedy farmers.
BTTT
Socialism ultimately devolves into communism as people discover they no longer have the Liberty to pursue their dreams and goals. Communism is incompatible with human nature as people must be severely controlled so as to maintain the totalitarian state.
Mass starvation is the objective.
Price controls on food serve a purpose.
Most young Americans think that Communism is when the government gives you everything for free. It’s pretty awesome.
Right? (:-) /sarc
Yeah - it sure is, 1960’s style communism, which her parents advocated from within Marxist circles in California where radical immigrants conspired to design the destruction of our constitutional republic.
I still cannot find where, in that pesky constitution thingie, that the fed was granted the right to regulate food in any way, shape or form.....
I would realy like it if it was a legislative requirement for a bill to cite specific areas of the Constitution that justify the bill at the federal level.
Then the House passes it.
Then the Senate passes it.
Then the Supreme Court reviews and approves the Constitutional justification.
Then the President signs it into law.
If they had to do that, our government would be 90% smaller.
Bolshevik--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1926)
But what does “full communist” even mean to generations of young people who have no idea what communism has wrought in the world?
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