Posted on 08/16/2024 9:39:06 AM PDT by grundle
Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
The profit margin for supermarkets is only 1.6%.
#KamalaHarris said that's "excessive," and she wants to impose #PriceControls on food.
Either she wants to cause food shortages, or she's too dumb to understand #Economics 101.
Which is it?
https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-price-gouging-groceries/
#Communism
All food stores should be government owned and run.
Only 2 kinds of cereal .
1 bag of sugar every 8 months.
Your ration card will keep track.
All hail Comrade Kamala
By the way, if the ‘Rats get traction with this - they’re going to print WAY more money! Why wouldn’t they, now that they have someone else to blame?
Not just price control.
She will have to couple that to wage control as well; wages are a major input in setting prices.
Another thing she doesn’t understand; increasing minimum wage increases all wages and will work against her price control.
Another thing; printing trillions for profligate spending will work against her price control armature.
Another thing; she will need a lot of guns and badges to enforce rationing and to conduct war against the black market.
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Just like Biden. She’s a puppet of the Deep State.
Her proposal has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with power, both its acquisition and its retention. Tim is the perfect compliment to her.
Are the voters foolish enough to vote for a Chavez/Maduro style government? Because that’s what she is proposing.
Harris and Walz are also too stupid to know that once their usefulness to the Deep State is over they will be Bidened (new term) at best.
Yes. Many of them are that stupid. And to be blunt, i won’t cry because these idiots will get exactly what they voted for.
VP Walz has Stalinist communist balls. He wants to call the shots for Kammy dumbass. I think he will succeed some of the time. If they beat Trump-Vance.
Well, I guess we better stock up on toilet paper or we’ll be standing in line for it, just like the Russians did back in the day.
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I have the choice of probably 10 or more
full size grocery stores within an hours drive.
I live in very rural Hawaii.
I guarantee you they make very good money,
however it is the distributors/wholesalers
that make all the money and essentially set the prices.
Stores have to deal with the public. Distributors and wholesalers don’t have to, and refuse to deal with the public.
I get most all my non-perishable food items from Amazon or from other on-line suppliers, delivered to my home cheaper than local stores that I must drive to.
I have space and money to buy things in bulk.
Most people don’t.
Someone once said “never attribute to malice anything that can be adequately explained by stupidity”... so, I’ll go with stupid on this one.
Cost of fuel to the farmer, rancher, or trucker. Fuels up 50 per cent
Cost of energy to process, refrigerate, and run the store .. up.
cost of goods rise because .. drum roll please...
corporate price gouging.
The Idiot has spoken.
She is and always will be Joe Bidens straight man.
“Family cloths” Look it up.
If you every dealt with cloth
diapers you’d understand the
drill.
Dependence and control is and has been their end game for quite some time now.
Prices controls don’t work.
1. They punish owners who still have to pay suppliers, producers, etc.
2. They lead to lower quality as corners are cut to fill orders more cheaply.
3. They cause people to buy more of cheaper items, so shelves empty and owners have no reason to restock
She wants to shift the blame from her and Biden
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