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WaPo Busts Kamala in Glorious Op-Ed Linking 'Communist' and Her Proposed
'Price Controls'
By Nick Arama | 7:45 AM on August 16, 2024

AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough
Kamala Harris finally came out with a policy position. Her prior one was
one that she swiped from her opponent, former President Donald Trump —
no tax on tips. Her new policy was going after "price gouging" by
corporations, saying that she'd crack down on "excessive prices" and
"excessive profits."

What qualifies as "excessive"? This smacks of the Soviet Union and
communism, in addition to being truly bad policy. In the U.S., the
government doesn't control/dictate to private companies.

READ MORE: Kamala Harris Finally Has a Policy Proposal, and It'd Make
the Soviets Blush

Now, what's pretty funny is that the Washington Post recognized this
too, in an op-ed entitled: "When your opponent calls you 'communist,'
maybe don't propose price controls?"

It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from. 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.

In a news release Wednesday, her campaign said the first 100 days of her presidency would include the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on
food and groceries — setting clear rules of the road to make clear that
big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”

What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that
determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification.
Hey, who needs clarity? You're just supposed to vibe on her saying
something against those greedy corporations! Funny how the greedy
corporations weren't "greedy" under former President Donald Trump —
inflation rose under the Biden-Harris team.

The WaPo op-ed went further in glorious truth, noting just how bad this
would be.

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.
The op-ed also noted that contrary to excessive profits, supermarket
profit margins are "notoriously thin." It said that the Harris economic advisers seemed to be "either too confused or lazy" to tell the
difference between illegal price fixing and market fluctuations based on
supply chain disruptions or high demand.

Oh, and finally:

But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a “communist,” maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be
labeled as federal price controls.

When even the WaPo is making the "communist" link and calling you out,
you may just have a problem.

Not to mention that it's the Biden/Harris overspending that helped to
kick off this inflation. And Harris has already had "day one" in power — she's had three-plus years to try to figure it out and just made it worse.

The "policy" is horrible, but you're just supposed to be vibing on how
she's going to take care of the evil corporations. She apparently vetted
this policy like she vetted her running mate Tim Walz — which is to say
not at all or keeping her eyes covered about all the bad stuff.

comments include

Lex Naturae
an hour ago
Harris' fake bounce ended on 7/25. (Rasmussen) Trump is currently
beating Harris in the battleground states. (RCP)

Harris' leftward lurch with Walz and price controls should quickly burst
the MSM's "moderate" makeover.


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7.62x51mm
an hour ago
What that dipshit Harris does not understand, is that one of her
inflationary dollars is worth far less than a Trump 2020 dollar. Hence,
to maintain profitability, and be able to maintain cost of living
increases for employees, the rate of price increases must actually
surpass the actual inflation rate. This is because all aspects of
production / cost of good sold are artificially increased in cost due to
the administrations inflation (dollar devaluation). This is why
inflation is so damaging, it is a beast that feeds on itself. The only
company that could possibly avoid this is one that harvests a product
that incurs no cost increase for production and your employees were not
subject to the inflation that she and the Biden administration are causing.

anon-ke1a
an hour ago
1) Correction: The federal government doesn’t dictate to private
companies? Of course it does, through regulations and taxation. 2)
Voters need to be educated that printing money causes inflation. Most do
not make the connection. 3) We should be educating voters about the
impact of wage and price controls in the 70s.


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anon-t53m anon-ke1a
an hour ago
Makes you wonder if in the interest of government it's better to have
only a marginally educated populace...public schools then by necessity
need to dumb down just about everything. Voila...they have. Coincidence?
I don't think so.


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Loyal Nine
an hour ago
Nice jab at her "communist" policy. We really do have to start calling a
horse, a horse.


anon-nn7q
an hour ago
What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that
determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification. (WaPo quote)
EXACTLY the same logic applies to censorship: who decides what is "disinformation, misinformation and malformation" and what is the
threshold for each?


Loyal Nine anon-nn7q
an hour ago
Totalitarian, which includes communist, regimes decide both prices and
what to censor, as well as almost everything one can name that limits or
erases the "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."


JohnB316
an hour ago
In response to: "It said that the Harris economic advisers seemed to be
"either too confused or lazy" to tell the difference between illegal
price fixing and market fluctuations based on supply chain disruptions
or high demand." Let's make a couple of edits that the WaPo couldn't make.

It said that the Harris economic advisers seemed to be "either too
confused or lazytoo stupid" to tell the difference between illegal price
fixing and market fluctuations based on supply chain disruptions or high demand. More accurate now. Thank me! 😜😜


jalo1951
an hour ago
She is a DEI asshat. I learned in high school econ 101 class that this
scheme doesn't work.


Porkchop Express
an hour ago
With bidan's lights dimmed more everyday kamel should have had an
platform of her own at least two years ago!
If this is how she leads off what comes next?


U SAID IT Porkchop Express
an hour ago
You’re right. That’s why she kept saying he was A-OK.
So she can deny responsibility and not formulating any course corrections. She’s a lazy, dishonest, opportunist. Totally incompetent, and she knows
it, but tries to compensate with stupid word salads.


LashRambo
2 hours ago
If she wants to reduce the cost of food, support reducing product loss
from theft. Much more consequential than corporate price gouging.


anon-x8p1
2 hours ago
Obama -Biden-Harris-Walz: Grow Big Government until you have a permanent Democrat voting majority.

We are very, very close to that long-standing Democrat goal. One or two election away from total loss of our country to a permanent tax dollar
funded permanent Democrat majority.

This is what happened to California under AG Harris and this is what
will soon happen to the rest of the country. Pay attention voters/ tax
payers. They have no other goal.


anon-x8p1
2 hours ago edited
Any Harris program has only one goal: hire more government employees who
in turn become due-paying government employee union members.

How many new government employees does it take to check the prices o
celery all across the US? Millions of new Democrat-voting government
employees.

Ka-ching! The Harris Way to a Permanent Democrat Majority.

Harris did the same thing to California - expand the government employee
union payrolls until you create a permanent super-majority. This trashed
out the entire state in less than 20 years.


Lex Naturae
2 hours ago
Karma. The MSM can only do so much to cover for the Democrats' far-left impulses.


anon-x8p1 Lex Naturae
2 hours ago
Voters and tax payers can do the most to stop the Democrat march to
create a permanent Democrat majority.

Just say no to more expansion of Big Government (D). Why should you pay Democrats to screw your over?


RapidRobert
2 hours ago
That's pretty bad that a Leftist rag shows that IT understands basic
economics, but the potential "Pres of the USA" does NOT! Ach du lieber!


Hal
2 hours ago
In a free economy doesn't the law of supply and demand have a way of
dictating prices? In a rigged economy that is overregulated isn't it the centralized regulators that drives out competition from the market and
keeps prices high in order to enslave the population? To quote Kamala
she must think that we all just fell out of a "coconut tree".


U SAID IT
2 hours ago
She’s an idiot and advised by a team of idiots. None of them read about history, and what has been destructive economic policy from the past.
She just puts this out there for all the dummies that want to blame
their local grocery store and gas station for all their troubles. And
believe NOW she’s going to fix everything, after doing nothing for 3 1/2 years.


RedinOR
2 hours ago
Wouldn't a reasonable person want to understand what's behind the price increases - you know, the root causes? Blaming "corporate America" is
lazy and stupid. This is why we need to elect more people with real
business experience to represent us instead of lawyers who have never
actually participated in real commerce.


PopWarner RedinOR
2 hours ago
Yes! Someone who actually has run a business such as Trump and Vance!!


anon-cdoc
2 hours ago
Sadly, the democrats have been talking about price gouging and corporate
greed for decades, anytime they need someone to blame for their bad
policies. Even more sad is the numbers of people that buy into it -
sadly, my idiot sister is one of them. She HATES millionaires and
billionaires. She's a Bernie-bro through and through. She agrees with
Obama that you don't need endless profits. My mom swears she did not
drop her on her head as a baby... But, in the long run, Harris isn't
going to invoke any price controls. Everything coming out of her mouth
is a lie. She might try, and say she tried, but it won't happen. Now, if
it was Elizabeth Warren, I'd have no doubts.


Mrs. deWinter anon-cdoc
2 hours ago
But Bernie-bro is a millionaire, too, with 3 homes! Dems never connect
the dots. Sorry about your ignorant sister.

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