Harris Gets Destroyed Over Price Controls BY.......

[struth]

When the companies are making record profits by gouging the public, they can afford a little regulation.

like what companies? tell us

there are laws against price gouging now, why hasn't Xiden and Harris done anything?

 

[hadit]

Got it. You claim record profits are not record profits. Perfect example of trump world reasoning where lies are not lies, giving more to the rich somehow helps the poor and middle class, and a convicted felon is not a crook.

Nope, I'm asking you to be honest and account for inflation. Would you say a working man is getting record pay when he gets a raise to the highest level he's ever been paid, but it's less than inflation and his purchasing power has gone down, or would you say his peak earning was when the money he got paid could buy more? Seriously?

Which would you prefer, getting paid $1,000/week and being able to afford a car, a house and groceries or $1,500/week and having to choose between paying the mortgage and feeding your kids?

 

[BULLDOG]

Nope, I'm asking you to be honest and account for inflation. Would you say a working man is getting record pay when he gets a raise to the highest level he's ever been paid, but it's less than inflation and his purchasing power has gone down, or would you say his peak earning was when the money he got paid could buy more? Seriously?

Which would you prefer, getting paid $1,000/week and being able to afford a car, a house and groceries or $1,500/week and having to choose between paying the mortgage and feeding your kids?

You can feed your kids on 1500 per week. We aren't talking about a working man who gets a few dollars for a raise. We're talking about millionaires and corporations who are gouging the public for hundreds of millions.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Maduro fought comapny profits too.

Crisis-Stricken Venezuelans Eat Rotten Meat

Some Venezuelans have resorted to buying spoiled meat as power outages continue to plague the South American country amid what has become the country's worst economic collapse in history.

www.newsweek.com

Venezuelans say you can treat rotted meat with vinegar and then eat it.

This is what democrats want.

 

[BULLDOG]

Maduro fought comapny profits too.

Crisis-Stricken Venezuelans Eat Rotten Meat

Some Venezuelans have resorted to buying spoiled meat as power outages continue to plague the South American country amid what has become the country's worst economic collapse in history.

www.newsweek.com

Venezuelans say you can treat rotted meat with vinegar and then eat it.

This is what democrats want.

No. I'm a Democrat, and I don't want that. I wouldn't mind sending some of that to you though.

 

[Dante]

The Washington Post. Yes, you read that right: the WaPo. The title of the column titled "When your opponent calls you a 'communist' maybe don't propose price controls?" by Catherine Rampell.

And she doesn't mince words:

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.

At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices.

That’s because, among other things, the legislation would ban companies from offering lower prices to a big customer such as Costco than to Joe’s Corner Store, which means quantity discounts are in trouble. Worse, it would require public companies to publish detailed internal data about costs, margins, contracts and their future pricing strategies. Posting cost and pricing plans publicly is a fantastic way for companies to collude to keep prices higher — all facilitated by the government.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-price-gouging-groceries/

Honeymoon is OVER.

It's Rampell

Catherine Chelsea Rampell (born November 4, 1984) is an American opinion journalist and nationally syndicated opinion columnist.