Slogan/Policies have been used before
She’ll also put her face on all food packages just like Hugo Chavez
She is giving the ok to return to burning stores.
Think some kid needs to Trump her....
LET PEOPLE BE REMINDED, that Richard Nixon had once tried price controls.
On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.” After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a “Pay Board” and a “Price Commission,” with an eye toward eventually lifting controls — conveniently, after the 1972 election. Even though his speech pre-empted the popular Western Bonanza, the people loved it, too — 75 percent backed the plan in polls.
Economist Milton Friedman correctly predicted, however, Nixon’s gambit ended “in utter failure and the emergence into the open of the suppressed inflation.” It was obvious that price controls didn’t work: “Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to the market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets.”
Scarcity AND inflation running amok.
They had her giving the rehearsed ”stump speech” on Fox.
“This campaign isn’t about the past, it’s about the future.”
It just begged for someone to scream, “that is because you are responsible for the present and you sure as hell don’t want to talk about that.”
I still resent the woke and BLM kissup CEOS who do virtue signaling about helping the downtrodden workers by contributing to Dems.
Hope many of the big supermarket and supplier CEOS will get bright red faces and tightly clenched fists over being used as the scapegoats by Dems for “price gouging.”
It’s up to business to fight and take down the Dems.
Well past time they should have joined our side.
As for the lies about price gouging:
One of the summaries of profit margins for their field:
“Supermarkets can be profitable, but they operate on thin margins, which means efficient cost management and strategic planning are essential. The standard net profit margin for supermarkets in 2023 was around 2.2% before taxes, and just 1.6% after paying taxes.”
Trump should come out hard against these price controls give a simple 5 point explanation on why price controls are terrible policy and will only damage the economy more.
Richard Nixon tried and failed. Gerald Ford tried WIN (whip inflation now) and failed. And of course Jimmy Carter failed. But the Cackler will make work. LOL A ditz.
First thing that will happen within hours will be empty store shelves
The consequences will be immediate
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. 🤣
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.
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