Posted on 08/16/2024 3:19:24 PM PDT by Libloather
Greetings, comrade worker: Candidate for Party General Secretary Kamala Harris has promised to punish the hoarders and wreckers driving up grocery prices.
All hail the might of Soviet labor!
That’s the latest bonkers proposal from Komrade Kamala Harris, unveiled in her marquee speech on the economy Friday — socialist price controls on groceries.
Because the sky-high grocery prices average Americans have seen since she’s been in office couldn’t be the result of her boss’s disastrous economic policies.
No, they must be caused by price-gouging corporate overlords who for some reason want customers to buy less of their products.
The data prove Harris and her team are (as usual) lying.
Producer prices have moved up in lockstep with consumer prices, meaning that people selling goods and services charge customers more because they themselves are paying more for goods and services.
That’s the vicious circle of inflation.
That Harris’ mendacious “first 100 days” idea is being greeted with anything less than universal hoots of derision is obscene.
Indeed, it’s so absurd that even The New York Times, the chief interference-runner for the Biden administration, has admitted the situation may be more “complicated” than Harris claims.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Nixon’s policy was an utter failure because all a food or other company had to do was claim their products were “new and improved” which weren’t affected by price freezes.
“Reclassification of job titles and duties” allowed wage increases.
Yeah, as if it worked during Nixon’s reign.
She and others of her financial ilk don’t have to worry about shortages and high food prices. Her father was a Marxist professor so that’s where she most likely learned about price controls - as in Soviet Russia, Cuba and Venezuela
I swear my normal grocery bill these days looks like I’m hosting my entire family for Thanksgiving.
Grocery stores profits are around 1.6-2%, when such a thin profit margin, they’re not going to carry items that are not profitable. Here come the shortages.
https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1824520561558687971?s=46&t=o3mUVQkL1UQPehiijnCgqg
She’s gonna “end price gauging on food.” I didn’t even know price “gauging” was a thing. 🤣
I remember Rush Limbaugh saying once he worked in a grocery store as a teen during Nixon’s price controls - the owner had a list of what was/wasn’t price controlled and told Rush to change the names of cuts of meat from price controlled to non-price controlled.
So, Kamala decided to demonize Safeway for what she and her boss did with driving food inflation through the roof. She doesn’t have to worry about the ridiculous supermarket gouging narrative because the MSM will carry water for her and legitimize it
Government solutions to problems that they have caused always requires that you give them more power over your life.
NY Post:
"(Harris)Attendee Dylan Neil noted that Harris’ ideas on curbing price gouging are “definitely a good policy, a lot of larger organizations can weasel their way in to manipulate certain systems, and I think that’s definitely an issue, and I think that it’s a really good proposal on her end.”
Asked about Trump calling Harris’ plan to end price-gouging “communist”, Sangimino said that’s “insane, just like Donald Trump.” Neil added “I don’t think it’s communist at all.”
Jessica McKoy, a 30-year-old pharmacist from Raleigh, told the Post that she was keen on Harris’ plan to put “the stop on inflation,” adding that she was excited to hear more about the “plan to cut living expenses, groceries, gas taxes, and just represent the middle class.”
For Meg Sangimino, a content marketer in her late 20’s, the Child Tax Credit “sounded very promising,” adding that it was the first time she’d heard of the idea.”It seems like she is really focusing on families, especially in the middle class. That’s very appealing to me,” she said.
Asked if she thought it was fair for people with kids to pay less in taxes, Sangimino said, “I do, yeah, people with kids have a lot of costs that people without kids don’t have.”
These people deserve all the hell that will be rained down on them with price controls - shortages, grocery store closures, etc. The rest of us don't.
Heels-up thinks the retail store is the problem. Full transparency would show who is doing the gouging.
Do not forget the massive theft, asset loss per year that alone is in the millions per store!
I actually remember Nixon breaking into regularly scheduled programming to make that announcement. Wish I could remember what show we were watching.
Batman.
Remember, we can vote our way into Marxism, but we’re going to have to shoot our way out of it.
you have to sell at a loss
now make some more
its a bidenism
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