Does anyone agree with Kamala's plan to implement a FEDERAL ban on price gouging?

[AZrailwhale]

Magas support price gouging. I'm not surprised.

The free market prevents "price gouging"; only crony capitalism that you are in favor of allows it because then the government picks the winners and losers.

 

[Dekster]

I worry that at some point the democrats would have at least 51 votes in the Senate, a House majority, and a dem in the WH, and they would abolish the Senate filibuster and pretty much do as they please. They tried in 2021 and I think will try again with success. I can't see the GOP doing that, they are too divided and don't have the nads. But the Far Left would, those MFers are very determined to have their way.

As for the ban, has anybody ever been successfully prosecuted for that? One wonders if it would withstand scrutiny in court at the Supreme court level, if not in the lower courts. I think what we have here is pure political grandstanding by Ms Harris.

As for your last paragraph, apparently yes
"Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee has filed lawsuits against two Houston-area gas stations for alleged price gouging during Hurricane Beryl." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...l-gas-station-sued-price-gouging-19664965.php

As for your first paragraph, I am sure there are some who would gladly do it, but the senators tend to like that rule except for when it comes to judges because they know when their majority could become a minority in short order. There is this weird dynamic with Senate elections where it seems like there is a cycle that heavily favors each party and then one that is a toss up pretty consistently every 6 years.

 

[MarathonMike]

"They all lie".

I imagine she has a concept.

All you can do is imagine since she refuses to tell the American people what her plans are.

 

[pknopp]

All you can do is imagine since she refuses to tell the American people what her plans are.

Maybe she will just end income taxes. LOL

 

[sealybobo]

Kamala clearly stated on CNN's town hall that she plans to implement a FEDERAL ban on price gouging, "punishing companies" for high prices on groceries and products. She provided no specifics, but in general does anyone agree that it is a good thing to give the government this kind of power? Have government enforced price controls ever worked anywhere? What do you think?

Looks like TRUMP agrees with her

DOJ investigating major egg producers amid soaring prices: Sources

The Justice Department is in the early stages of investigating the major egg producers over soaring egg prices, source familiar with the matter told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

During the last spike in bird flu from 2022 to 2023, the company also reported more than tripling its gross profit compared to the prior year. In the company's 2024 annual report, Cal-Maine Foods partially attributed its $3.1 billion in sales and $1.2 billion in profit to the "significantly higher average egg selling prices."

"Cal-Maine's CEO acknowledged that the company's higher-than-estimated net income for Q2 'reflect higher market prices, which have continued to rise this fiscal year as supply levels of shell eggs have been restricted.' Translation: the egg company and its shareholders are making higher profits while Americans shell out more for grocery staples,"

 

[sealybobo]

Maybe she will just end income taxes. LOL

Trump is doing what she was going to do. Just look into them. Then suddenly you see the gouging stops.

 

[pknopp]

Trump is doing what she was going to do. Just look into them. Then suddenly you see the gouging stops.

No Trump isn't.

 

[sealybobo]

No Trump isn't.

Are you being a petty little bitch? We know Trump isn't doing anything. He assigns the task. Pam B will do it for him.

The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. Pam Bondi has served as U.S. attorney general since February 4, 2025.

Point is, this is exactly what Kamala said she was going to do last year and you hypocrites had a problem with it. You said they weren't gouging.

Maybe when Trump tells you they are gouging, you'll finally see it.

 

[pknopp]

Are you being a petty little bitch? We know Trump isn't doing anything. He assigns the task. Pam B will do it for him.

The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. Pam Bondi has served as U.S. attorney general since February 4, 2025.

Point is, this is exactly what Kamala said she was going to do last year and you hypocrites had a problem with it. You said they weren't gouging.

Maybe when Trump tells you they are gouging, you'll finally see it.

Maybe you can point out where I supported anything Harris said or did. It doesn't even have to be about this, just anything.

 

[sealybobo]

Maybe you can point out where I supported anything Harris said or did. It doesn't even have to be about this, just anything.

You are supporting an idea she had because now Trump's doing it. It's pathetic dummy. How you could NEVER support Kamala even if she came up with a good idea.

You would argue and say it was a bad idea. You're sad.

 

[pknopp]

You are supporting an idea she had because now Trump's doing it. It's pathetic dummy. How you could NEVER support Kamala even if she came up with a good idea.

She never did so...........................

You would argue and say it was a bad idea. You're sad.

It's not a bad idea, the issue is Trump isn't going to do it. Him, his administration, etc.

 

[MarathonMike]

Point is, this is exactly what Kamala said she was going to do last year and you hypocrites had a problem with it. You said they weren't gouging.

Kamala's problem was she was never specific about anything including what she meant about "price gouging". President Trump is TARGETING a specific industry, eggs, for investigation. I personally think we have bigger eggs to fry (see what I did there?).

 

[sealybobo]

Kamala's problem was she was never specific about anything including what she meant about "price gouging". President Trump is TARGETING a specific industry, eggs, for investigation. I personally think we have bigger eggs to fry (see what I did there?).

SHE wasn't specific? And that was HER problem? LOL.

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But he has yet to deliver.

In his early days on the campaign trail, circa 2015, he said on CNN he would repeal Obamacare and replace it with “something terrific,” and on Sean Hannity’s radio show he said the replacement would be “something great.” Fast-forward to 2020. Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away.

2016: The Campaign Trail

Trump tweeted in February that he would immediately repeal and replace Obamacare and that his plan would save money and result in better health care.

By March, a blueprint, “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again,” was posted on his campaign website. It echoed popular GOP talking points but was skimpy on details.

2017: The First Year in Office

January and February:

Trump told The Washington Post in a January interview that he was close to completing his health care plan and that he wanted to provide “insurance for everybody.”

He tweeted Feb. 17 that while Democrats were delaying Senate confirmation of Tom Price, his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the “repeal and replacement of ObamaCare is moving fast!”

And, on Feb. 28, in his joint address to Congress, Trump discussed his vision for replacing Obamacare. “The way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we are going to do,” he said.

March: Eyes on Congress — And Twitter

House Republicans, with backing from the White House, were the ones to introduce new health legislation, the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The repeal-and-replace bill kept in place some of the more popular provisions of the ACA. Some conservative Republicans said the bill didn’t go far enough, deriding it as “Obamacare Lite” and refusing to vote on it.

On March 9, Trump tweeted, “Despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture!”

Later that month, as efforts to pass the AHCA continued to stall, Trump updated his earlier promise.

“And I never said — I guess I’m here, what, 64 days? I never said repeal and replace Obamacare. You’ve all heard my speeches. I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. I have a long time,” said Trump in his remarks from the Oval Office on March 24. (Which was true; he had said within 100 days.) “But I want to have a great health care bill and plan, and we will. It will happen. And it won’t be in the very distant future.”

2019, Trump again took up the health plan mantle with this March 26 tweet: “The Republican Party will become ‘The Party of Healthcare!’” Two days later, in remarks to reporters before boarding Marine One, Trump said that “we’re working on a plan now,”

June last year “We’re going to produce phenomenal health care. And we already have the concept of the plan. And it’ll be much better health care,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos. When Stephanopoulos asked if he was going to tell people what the plan was, Trump responded: “Yeah, we’ll be announcing that in two months, maybe less.”

Oct. 25:

Trump told reporters that Republicans have a “great” health care plan. “You’ll have health care the likes of which you’ve never seen,” he said.

July 19:

Trump told Chris Wallace in a Fox News interview that a health care plan would be unveiled within two weeks

July 31:

With no sign of a plan yet, reporters asked Trump about it at a Florida event. Trump responded that a “very inclusive” health care plan was coming and “I’ll be signing it sometime very soon.”

Aug. 3:

Pushing the timeline once again, Trump said during a press briefing that the health care plan would be introduced “hopefully, prior to the end of the month.”

Aug. 10:

In response to a reporter’s question about why he was planning to issue an executive order when the ACA already protects those with preexisting conditions, Trump said: “Just a double safety net, and just to let people know that the Republicans are totally strongly in favor of … taking care of people with preexisting conditions. It’s a second platform. We have: Preexisting conditions will be taken care of 100% by Republicans and the Republican Party.”

Just before publication, we asked the White House for more information regarding when exactly the plan might be unveiled. The press office did not respond to our request for comment.

 

[justoffal]

I like the idea but I don't think she has any clue what type of an economic monkey wrench she's dealing with.

I remember when Nixon tried this and I also remember thousands of farmers across the Nation plowing their fields back under because it was cheaper for them to use it as fertilizer than it was for them to get it to the market.

Nobody saw that coming and there are things that will happen again that nobody will be able to predict that will create a catastrophic supply chain shortage to the grocery stores especially. That in turn will skyrocket the prices beyond all control either that or grocery stores will simply start locking their doors because there will be nothing on the shelves.

I remember that all too well