Kamala Harris says she’s going to lower prices.

[Nuthin' Fancy]

"I blame Trump" is a leftist politico- religious ideology.

Of course you do.

They are incapable of understanding their Soviet style model of totalitarianism has a long, lurid history of failure. The 20th century is littered with corpses and streets knee deep in the blood of victims of Soviet ideology that Democrats are so anxious to convert the US to.

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[SassyIrishLass]

The Economics of Price Controls - The Economics of Price Controls - United States Joint Economic Committee

www.jec.senate.gov

Key Points​

• A price ceiling creates a government-mandated maximum price that sellers can charge their customers.
• Price controls can lower prices for some consumers but also cause shortages which lead to arbitrary rationing and, over time, reduce product innovation and quality.
• Price controls during the 1970s caused shortages, especially of oil and gasoline. Rapid inflation followed the repeal of price controls.
• Price controls on prescription drugs—such as those imposed by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022—stunt pharmaceutical innovation, imposing large, long-run costs on Americans that outweigh the short-run benefits of lower prices.

It's been tried before and never worked... sorta like socialism

 

[Hollie]

That one just chimes in now again with "blob" and left loon gibberish

Just another bandwidth wasting leftist who offers nothing but repetitive slogans.

 

[Mac-7]

Wait, weren't you pissing and moaning about food prices the other day?

You need to make up your alleged mind.

Not me personally, but it is a problem that everyone faces

Trump is hitting biden/harris hard on high energy prices which is a prime contributor to inflation

But Soviet price controls are a terrible idea

 

[Hollie]

It was Ford, not Nixon.

How Gerald Ford Tried to Fight Inflation | HISTORY

Ford's 'Whip Inflation Now (WIN)' effort tried to tamp down inflation with a collective, can‑do approach. It didn't work out.

www.history.com

False.
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Nixon issued Executive Order 11615 (pursuant to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970), imposing a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in order to counter inflation. This was the first time the U.S. government had enacted wage and price controls since World War II.

 

[Zincwarrior]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4828758-kamala-harris-federal-ban-price-gouging/

Actually its a ban on price gouging. The same kind of ban they have in most states.

 

[Resnic]

Instead of more rules and laws and regulations, how about we create an environment where things don't have to be overly expensive. A good economy, a strong and smart working class, and less.

We had that for a very long time. And now trying to enforce rules will do nothing but end up punishing the average citizen in the end. She will in the end trying to spin it as helping us but it will only hurt us in other ways.

Good.
Now Trump calling her stupid will make perfect sense as she rolls out her Gestapo plan.

Sadly a very large portion of Americans will never understand or even care. All they will know is "kamala is making stuff cheaper" they care nothing of the mechanism nor the result. They are like goldfish, all they know is the second they are in and the second they just left.

 

[Hollie]

Wait, weren't you pissing and moaning about food prices the other day?

You need to make up your alleged mind.

Weren't you pissing and moaning that anyone would dare criticize your leftist politico-religious ideology of uncontrolled floodong of the economy with government printing money that caused inflation?

 

[marvin martian]

Kamala Harris to Announce Soviet-Style Price Controls on Food Under Guise of 'Gouging Ban'

Soviet-style centrally administered price controls on food and grocery prices will form part of the federal economic proposals U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil Friday.

www.google.com

2:02
Soviet-style centrally administered price controls on food and grocery prices will form part of the federal economic proposals U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil Friday when she finally delivers an insight into her 2024 policies.
Her address will mark the first time Harris offers a policy focused speech since she was anointed as the Democratic candidate in July and been roundly accused by critics since as being a policy-free zone, as Breitbart News reported.
The Democratic nominee is promising to institute a first-ever national ban on price gouging and price-fixing within her first 100 days in office in an effort to deflect many voters’ low marks for President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.

Time magazine reports Harris plans to direct the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies to investigate and penalize “big corporations” that violate government rules in a mirror of Soviet command economy diktats.
Other ways of tackling price fixing and selective anti-competitive practices in the food and grocery industries will also come under scrutiny, her campaign said by way of previewing her full set of economic proposals.
Harris will also reportedly detail plans to cut prescription drug and housing costs in the economic address during her visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.
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There is no indication yet if she will take media questions after the event.

In her speech, the Democratic candidate will specifically single out the highly consolidated meat industry, deeming its processing middlemen “particularly egregious” price fixers with a history of being found to have illegally controlled prices, the Time report sets out.
Harris has gone almost four weeks without a press conference or an interview, though she has answered a handful of shouted questions from journalists in the traveling press corps.

She's even dumber than I thought.

Good Lord...

 

[marvin martian]

Now, suddenly, the blob supporters will be all in favor of price gouging.

Do you support the federal government setting food prices?

 

[marvin martian]

Wait, weren't you pissing and moaning about food prices the other day?

You need to make up your alleged mind.

Do you support the federal government setting food prices?

 

[Hollie]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4828758-kamala-harris-federal-ban-price-gouging/

Actually its a ban on price gouging. The same kind of ban they have in most states.

Yet, no one has identified this alleged "gouging". It's just another leftist bit of sloganeering.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Instead of more rules and laws and regulations, how about we create an environment where things don't have to be overly expensive. A good economy, a strong and smart working class, and less.

We had that for a very long time. And now trying to enforce rules will do nothing but end up punishing the average citizen in the end. She will in the end trying to spin it as helping us but it will only hurt us in other ways.




Sadly a very large portion of Americans will never understand or even care. All they will know is "kamala is making stuff cheaper" they care nothing of the mechanism nor the result. They are like goldfish, all they know is the second they are in and the second they just left.

Not enough of the ilk to stop a Trump win though. The media only makes up her numbers, Trump will come through as real America has had enough.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Government price control isn't the answer. That is a slippery slope

That what the "free market" has produced..........monopolies.

Part 3 – Meat Mergers and the Rise of The Big 4 - 1915 Farm​

https://1915farm.com/blogs/educatio...ies – that's right,45% of the chicken market.
1915 Farm
https://1915farm.com › blogs › education › part-3-meat-...



Mergers starting 50 years ago marked the beginning of a massive consolidation that resulted in meatpackers with nearly double the power they held 120 years ago.

A century after the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act was implemented to reign in the five firms that made up The Meat Trust – here we are again, with one less packer, wielding significantly more control of the market, with far less government regulation.

Four giant companies – that’s right, FOUR – Tyson, Cargill, and Brazil-based National Beef and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef market. WH Group (Chinese), JBS, Hormel, and Tyson control about 67% of the pork market. Tyson and Pilgrims Pride control about 45% of the chicken market.

Consumers Pay When Generic Drug Companies Collude ...​

Kellogg Insight
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu › article › cons...
Jun 1, 2022 — They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice.

What do canned tuna, auto parts, and turbine generators have in common?
They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice. In effect, industry players were acting as a cartel, colluding to set high prices.

 

[Hollie]

It leads to a bustling black market.

Yes. And ultimately, higher prices.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

That what the "free market" has produced..........monopolies.

Part 3 – Meat Mergers and the Rise of The Big 4 - 1915 Farm​

https://1915farm.com/blogs/education/part-3-meat-mergers-and-the-rise-of-the-big-4#:~:text=Four giant companies – that's right,45% of the chicken market.
1915 Farm
https://1915farm.com › blogs › education › part-3-meat-...



Mergers starting 50 years ago marked the beginning of a massive consolidation that resulted in meatpackers with nearly double the power they held 120 years ago.

A century after the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act was implemented to reign in the five firms that made up The Meat Trust – here we are again, with one less packer, wielding significantly more control of the market, with far less government regulation.

Four giant companies – that’s right, FOUR – Tyson, Cargill, and Brazil-based National Beef and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef market. WH Group (Chinese), JBS, Hormel, and Tyson control about 67% of the pork market. Tyson and Pilgrims Pride control about 45% of the chicken market.

Consumers Pay When Generic Drug Companies Collude ...​

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Kellogg Insight
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu › article › cons...
Jun 1, 2022 — They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice.

What do canned tuna, auto parts, and turbine generators have in common?
They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice. In effect, industry players were acting as a cartel, colluding to set high prices.

It's never worked before and won't now. Just Heels Up trying to pander to you loons

 

[Hollie]

That what the "free market" has produced..........monopolies.

Part 3 – Meat Mergers and the Rise of The Big 4 - 1915 Farm​

https://1915farm.com/blogs/education/part-3-meat-mergers-and-the-rise-of-the-big-4#:~:text=Four giant companies – that's right,45% of the chicken market.
1915 Farm
https://1915farm.com › blogs › education › part-3-meat-...



Mergers starting 50 years ago marked the beginning of a massive consolidation that resulted in meatpackers with nearly double the power they held 120 years ago.

A century after the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act was implemented to reign in the five firms that made up The Meat Trust – here we are again, with one less packer, wielding significantly more control of the market, with far less government regulation.

Four giant companies – that’s right, FOUR – Tyson, Cargill, and Brazil-based National Beef and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef market. WH Group (Chinese), JBS, Hormel, and Tyson control about 67% of the pork market. Tyson and Pilgrims Pride control about 45% of the chicken market.

Consumers Pay When Generic Drug Companies Collude ...​

View attachment 996091
Kellogg Insight
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu › article › cons...
Jun 1, 2022 — They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice.

What do canned tuna, auto parts, and turbine generators have in common?
They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice. In effect, industry players were acting as a cartel, colluding to set high prices.

How about sliced bread? Is that also a part of your vast conspiracy theory?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Yes. And ultimately, higher prices.

Democrats don't care about that. They will always have what they want.

 

[candycorn]

Do you support the federal government setting food prices?

No. But price gouging is not setting food prices; it’s preventing merchants from selling needed goods to distressed communities.

 

[marvin martian]

No. But price gouging is not setting food prices; it’s preventing merchants from selling needed goods to distressed communities.

So, the government setting prices.

You support this?