Posted on 08/15/2024 7:13:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For those who don’t know...
In March, the White House launched the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing, a joint initiative between the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.
On Friday, Harris will single out the meat industry, saying that “soaring meat prices have accounted for a large part of Americans’ higher grocery bills, even as meat processing companies registered record-breaking profits following the pandemic,” according to the statement from her campaign.
Welcome to North Venezuela.
What price gouging?
The corporate mediots will praise this as “moving to the center.”
didn’t Jimmy Carter try that...I think they called it Voluntary Wage and Price controls...it ended up making inflation worse. IIRC
Does she want food shortages? Because that’s how you get food shortages.
Great, government price controls - those have always worked out so well in the past when tried by Communist nations.
Ah, what’s next? Of course, price controls!! because they have always worked so well
Taxes are price gouging. It’s only a question of how much.
1. Horrible idea that will create shortages and higher prices
2. Don’t let her pretend she has nothing to do with the current state of affairs.
Price controls will lead to shortages, any coincidence the meat industry is being singled out in this day and age of climate change
This idea is like the farmers being singled out for the use of nitrogen in fertilizer
This is simply a war on food production in the name of climate change using the public’s ignorance against them
Groceries have some of the slimmest profit margins by retailers. They make up for this in volume.
Telling grocers what they HAVE to charge will kill many of them, especially the small ones.
In the Soviet Union people line up for bread
In the West bread lines up for people
She’ll need a Wage and Price Control Board to go with it, as she recycles failed old Nixon policies.
What will the price of bread be in 2027? I’m sure the government can figure that out nationwide. What sn idiot.
Get ready for empty grocery shelves. Thats what price controls do. The next step is nationalization of industries including oil and food production.
No thank you you dumb commie.
Price controls wherever they have been tried in history, from Emperor Diocletian to Soviet Russia, have produced shortages and even mass starvation. This is Harris once again showing her ‘red side.’
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