Posted on 08/16/2024 8:17:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
It is “hard to exaggerate how bad” Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposal to implement government-enforced price control on groceries is, according to a Washington Post essay slamming the plan as both vague and harmful, and cautioning those labeled “communist” by their opponents should think twice before pushing such radical economic policies.
In a piece published Thursday, titled “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?” Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell argues that it’s difficult to overstate just “how bad” Harris’s plan is.
“It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from,” the essay states. “Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed.”
“Harris has chosen the latter,” Rampell adds.
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IMO, the take away from this is the manifestation of her deep, core socialist beliefs. Wow. To publicly float this as a serious policy consideration should scare a lot of people. She’s a true Marxist.
Double ouch:
“When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?”
When you lost the ComPost…
Totally surprised that they aren’t saying how wonderful this is.
As of a 25k subsidies for home purchases aren’t every bit as bad. That will also lead to peice control measures.
Is it time to start catching and freezing, raccoon and squirrel meat.
The liberal Washington Post is critical? Wow.
A bridge too far for Bezo’s. If price control becomes a thing it’s only a matter of time until Amazon is too greedy.
WAPO isn’t against the policy, they’re just against mentioning it during an election.
That is the more likely reason.
Tried under Nixon, this was a big failure.
Didn’t work and just causes more inflation and damage to the economy.
As dumb as she is, she’s unaware that price-control is at the root of what communism is about.
She is unaware that, communism have never worked, anywhere it’s been tried, or at anytime it’s been tried.
Communism makes it impossible tor any country to have a successful economy. Communism equals stupidity to the max.
Deep state to Kamala: “remember, we only let Obama be a marxist when it served our interests. This doesn’t serve our interests”
NYT published and article this morning that shows economists are nearly universally opposed.
But they sympathize with the sentiment lol
Did they let her actually go on record today by announcing her “Harris-Maduro” economic plan?
Never interrupt the enemy while they are making a mistake!
When did veterans ever get a $25k down payment handout?
Yeah, I remember when Nixon had his price controls and the inventory of products fell and people were laid off. A man I knew was a truck driver and 1/3 of his entire truck driving company was laid off.
Of course, anyone that lived through the 60’s to 80’s know what happen to soviet goods being unavailable with their fixed pricing model.
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