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Left-wing Washington Post slams Harris’ price-gouging crackdown plan: ‘Squandered the moment’
New York Post ^ | Aug. 17, 2024, 2:38 p.m. ET | Rich Calder

Posted on 08/17/2024 12:38:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Even the Washington Post isn’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries.

The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only “populist gimmicks.”

With food prices surging more than 20% nationwide during the Biden-Harris administration, Harris, during a North Carolina rally earlier Friday, unveiled economic policies she’d enact during her first 100 days as president that include enforcing government price controls on groceries.

Instead of “level[ing] with voters” and saying “inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains, and that the Federal Reserve’s policies, which the Biden-Harris administration supported, are working to slow it,” the veep “opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business,” the newspaper wrote.

Bezos, a supporter for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, purchased the newspaper in 2013, but he began taking a more active role in its operations in the past year.

The billionaire’s powerhouse portfolio — which includes e-commerce king Amazon and the Whole Food Market chain — would likely be impacted by Harris’ Commie-friendly policy ideas like having the Federal Trade Commission enforce a federal ban on price gouging that includes dishing out hefty penalties to companies that set exorbitantly high prices.

“Ms. Harris says she’ll target companies that make ‘excessive’ profits, whatever that means,” the editorial board barked.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kommiela; pricecontrol; pricecontrols; pricegauging; pricegouging
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

America has no interest in Kamunism.


21 posted on 08/17/2024 2:07:54 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Bezos, a supporter for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump”

That’s news to me?


22 posted on 08/17/2024 2:08:48 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: All

I saw the fake pope sucking up to Bozos the abortionist and his live in girlfriend. He was so thrilled it looked like he was going to wet his robe


23 posted on 08/17/2024 2:09:04 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“20%”

I should be so lucky.

ALDI

cream $2.79/Trump $5.39/Biden recently


24 posted on 08/17/2024 2:12:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof" - Elon Musk)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is a bad move for her. In the realignment that is going on, big businesses are moving firmly to the democrats. They have realized that a corrupt and hugely oversized government is a great way to buy monopolistic advantages over smaller or newer competitors.

Kamala stands firmly for corrupt and hugely ovesized government.

But price controls are insane even by corrupt and oversized government. Shaming greedy businesses when the problem is her fault might be a bridge too far.


25 posted on 08/17/2024 2:31:27 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
But price controls are insane even by corrupt and oversized government.

Demorats never keep any of their promises/threats.

That's why they can make the same promises/threats election-after-election.

26 posted on 08/17/2024 2:40:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The gouging is being done by democrats in Congress.

They’re spending our taxpayer money on their Green Energy utopia, on illegal aliens, while crippling energy policies.

The people orchestrating this are communists. The people who vote for them are either brainwashed, uninformed or very stupid.

TRILLIONS of taxpayer money on schemes and scams that obviously don’t work.

They’re not going to suffer the consequences of this out-of-control spending, we are.
We’re paying the consequences right now with 20% inflation.
Groceries are almost unaffordable.
If Kamala is installed, price controls will put supermarkets, who operate on a 2 to 3% profit margin, out of business.
At that point, groceries will not be available at any price.

Just like Obama, Kamala was raised by communists.

That’s who she is, and no amount of media butt kissing is going to change that.


27 posted on 08/17/2024 2:45:39 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the 2020 election Wall street gave approximately 71% of their money to Democrat candidates verses Republican candidates. Harris will do nothing to big business for two reasons.
1. They gave the Dems much money.
2. They did not cause the inflation, Biden and Harris polices cause this inflation.

Kamala speaks with forked tongue.


28 posted on 08/17/2024 2:59:13 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Instead of “level[ing] with voters” and saying “inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains,“

That was three years ago. Ya know what happened before that? President Stupid Democrat raised the price of ENERGY as one of the first things he did. It was then that the stones in the street started saying INFLATION! Then print a few trillion dollars more than you take in and demonrat inflation isn’t going ANYWHERE.


29 posted on 08/17/2024 3:11:28 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber

The msm doesn’t attack demonrats but they’re attacking Kamala the idiot. Hmmmmmm…


30 posted on 08/17/2024 3:12:53 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber
Is the Wash Com-Post trying to set up “She Who Must Not be Denied” for the DNC riots? Will Hillary fly in on her broom to snatch the nomination from the Kackler? Will Bill be preying on interns again?

No broom ride will happen. N-WITCH-1 is still being repaired from a catastrophic crash in 2016. The pilot's, certificate is still under review. The FAA asked the pilot, "Why did you fly N-WITCH-1 into a mountain? It was plainly marked on the map as "Iron Mountain Trump." Her pilots license is still suspended and will probably be revoked. She will be flying first class on Delta as Jeffery Epstein's jet is unavailable as is Jeffry Epstein. A high official said, "off the record she ain't never get her pilots certificate back to fly N-WITCH-1 nor even a paper airplane." Bill is okay with this. He said, "Interns or stewardess are all one and the same, I am good with it!"

31 posted on 08/17/2024 3:22:24 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Avalon Memories

They remind me that we have learned nothing at all from that atrocity. Just seven years later, the country elected Barack Hussein Obama president.
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There are a lot of dumb-downed Leftists around who think Obozo is a saint and Kamala is his black priestess. However, I remain steadfast, believing in the bulk of American society, that the people will see through this choreographed Commie charade. My biggest fear is that the Commies will try their damnedest to steal this election as they did the last. The people of America, those that are not brainwashed, better get out in mass and vote like their freedom depends on it, overpower the Commie election rigging machine, and pray to the Lord Almighty to intervene and save our Country from ruination. It’s said that the slide into Communism’s grasp is easy, but once a country is under the totalitarian iron fist, getting out from under it is near impossible.


32 posted on 08/17/2024 3:22:36 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘Squandered the moment’ = “kamala, you fool, you said the quiet part outloud, worse, you said it loudly and proudly ... NEVER SAY THE QUIET PART OUTLOUD!”

WaPo isn’t POed because Kamala is a kommie buffoon: they’re POed because she’s labeled herself as a kommie buffoon ...


33 posted on 08/17/2024 4:21:04 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bookmark.


34 posted on 08/17/2024 5:56:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is Harris who is running for President one of the New Squad?


35 posted on 08/17/2024 6:15:01 PM PDT by FreedBird (wh)
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