Kamala Harris to Announce Soviet-Style
Price Controls on Food Under Guise of
‘Gouging Ban’
Breitbart,
by
Simon Kent
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
8/15/2024 9:41:07 AM
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
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 8/15/2024 9:44:51 AM (No. 1778272)
Socialist leaning fools will love this until the inevitable happens as companies are forced out of business and products are no longer available.
34 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 8/15/2024 9:46:40 AM (No. 1778274)
I know at the grocery store I see more and more people stocking up. They are scared of what the elections will bring. Yes many I talk to are Trump fans, but don't trust the system any more. The is across all age groups that I talk to. I know if she gets elected, I will be one of the first to hit up the grocery store even more.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/15/2024 9:48:03 AM (No. 1778276)
So Kamala says, if you just elect her to a White House position, she'll ban inflation.
Next up, she will ban cancer if elected.
23 people like this.
Passing a law against the laws of economics is akin to passing a law against gravity.
Prices have risen for three reasons:
1. The dollar has been devalued because the democrats keep printing money by reckless spending.
2. Supply has been choked off due to needless regulations or regulations designed to line the pockets of democrat donors.
3. Demand has increased because Harris failed at her border czar duties and allowed millions of illegals (who get massive handouts) into the country
Related to no 3, wages are suppressed due to millions of illegals taking jobs at lower pay
That’s it.
30 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/15/2024 9:56:06 AM (No. 1778285)
Not only is she a commie she is a stupid commie. This does not work. They are so faux worried about "democracy" they should try worrying about capitalism.
Their hate for people who own their own businesses is very evident. They want the government to own and manage and regulate everything. They are choking the life out of us.
24 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 8/15/2024 10:04:08 AM (No. 1778289)
God help us.
21 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
thefield 8/15/2024 10:09:57 AM (No. 1778292)
The peanut man tried it with runaway inflation, and runaway deflation, yes he was good. Billy Jeff tried The results were terrible. WJC didn't need to. It cost Carter almost every state. MN of course.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/15/2024 10:11:49 AM (No. 1778294)
Nice. We will go from expensive food to starvation! Only Stalin and Democrats purposely engineer food crisis by using 'price control' to kill opponents. And let's face it, Democrats hate people that work, pay taxes and vote. Only those on welfare, food stamps, the goobernment dole and for sure Democrat voters will get food during the Harris regime.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 8/15/2024 10:14:11 AM (No. 1778296)
Price fixing by industry leads to high prices and stilted competition. Price fixing by gov mandate leads to low prices, empty shelves, and loss of production. Both are wrong…but when the gov does it, they accept no blame for their failure
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/15/2024 10:15:17 AM (No. 1778299)
One contributing factor to high prices is the cost of fuel. Food is delivered to stores by trucks. When the price of fuel for the trucks goes up so does the price of whatever they are delivering. So Our Beloved President Donald Trump has the solution: Drill, drill, drill. I want to see an oil derrick in Nancy Pelosi's back yard.
23 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
jimincalif 8/15/2024 10:16:05 AM (No. 1778302)
Expect shortages.
13 people like this.
Buying a tiller, and stocking up on seed. I'm fortunate to own land that I can plant my own food...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/15/2024 10:30:03 AM (No. 1778311)
Price controls don't work. You control prices, you control supply, you induce shortages, you create Soviet style GUM stores with empty shelves. What a royal ass fool is Kammie. Do you expect anything else from either commie, Kammie or Tim?
16 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/15/2024 10:39:28 AM (No. 1778317)
Chances are the result of Harris’s retail level price control policies, if implemented, will be to put a lot of grocery stores and food restaurants squeezed by high wholesale prices out of business, which will allow the others who remain in business to boost their prices until they also go out of business. Then Harris can start setting up DEI run Soviet style government grocery stores and restaurants where prices will be different for each leftist and progressive Democrat recognized Identity group throughout the US population. The Democrats would then go around with their media allies claiming doing that is just the implementation of their “democracy” throughout the US population.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rytwng 8/15/2024 10:46:10 AM (No. 1778323)
What idiot would vote for this commie. Lock her up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 8/15/2024 10:56:32 AM (No. 1778333)
Proving once again that when you register as a Democrat, the lobotomy is mandatory.
The worst part is that they know it won't work, but they also know that sheeple are stupid.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
downnout 8/15/2024 11:00:43 AM (No. 1778337)
Oh by all means, let’s have price controls. It’s always worked so well in the past…..groan.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pook60 8/15/2024 11:02:13 AM (No. 1778339)
Democrats always think they can do something that is a proven failure, but since they are so much smarter, it's going to work this time. Nixon, Ford and Carter already tried this and it was an utter failure. I remember price controls on coffee and sugar. There were always shortages towards the end of the price freeze deadline and skyrocketing prices after the deadline. Then they would start it all over again. I guess it is back to 1975 where you have to have inside information on which stations will get a truckload of gasoline today, so you get up before the sun and get in line until the truck gets there around lunch time. Oh boy!
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
chumley 8/15/2024 11:10:22 AM (No. 1778344)
Thanks to these political grifters over the last 40 years, I have enough emergency supplies to last me a lot longer than I will live. I found a box of .22s that had a 1 dollar price tag on it. I have tools from the 40's and 50's. I have some pre-ww2 surplus ammo that still works. What I dont have is a lot of room left or the energy to use that stuff.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
padiva 8/15/2024 11:14:08 AM (No. 1778346)
#2 I've been hoarding TP since 2015. I was afraid that BO would cancel the election and rule by iron fiat.
Time to stock up on tuna fish etc.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/15/2024 11:18:51 AM (No. 1778350)
Price gouging? I seriously doubt that. I don't think there are large profit margins in food. Do this and it will likely put farms out of business, and we will have shortages which will increase food prices.
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Yeah, right. People will vote for this. They think the government actually helps them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/15/2024 11:27:48 AM (No. 1778357)
Last month the national socialist democrat party announced a plan to cap rent increases at 5 percent per year. Now the NSDP wants price controls. Voters need reminders that the operative word is —- control. I’d like to see Kamala’s transcripts. I’ll bet my next three paychecks she never took a single course in accounting, economics, finance, or marketing.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/15/2024 11:33:12 AM (No. 1778364)
Carter tried this, worked out GREAT!!! lol
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 8/15/2024 11:34:17 AM (No. 1778365)
Peron did that in Argentina back in the 50s and created a black market for everything under the sun.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
BRDG 8/15/2024 11:34:34 AM (No. 1778366)
Producers will NOT produce at a loss
Food shortages
Starvation
Genocide
NEW WORLD ORDER
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
msjena 8/15/2024 11:35:17 AM (No. 1778368)
Give her an F in economics.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/15/2024 11:43:16 AM (No. 1778381)
Which means shortages and black markets. Which brings on rationing and coupons. Boy, they never learn do they?
6 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 8/15/2024 12:04:38 PM (No. 1778394)
She might as well run on a platform of ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT (ours) printing all the money it needs to fund all of its programs e.g. aid to Palestine, guaranteed annual income for everyone, benefits for illegal aliens, universal food, shelter, clothing, and medical care. An added advantage for the "poor" would be the elimination of the income tax. The presses could run until the strategic petroleum reserves are exhausted.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/15/2024 12:13:48 PM (No. 1778401)
Ummm - - but - - ummm - - but how come these evil corporations weren't "price gouging" when Trump was president?
Did they suddenly develop a "gouging" urge - - only after KamaLOL came along?
Sign me - - Confused.
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/15/2024 12:34:01 PM (No. 1778412)
Biden/Harris democrats always cry "gouging" to cover for their willful degradation of oil and gas production for the more costly importation of Middle Eastern oil. The democrat's so-called Green movement is a flimsy disguise for their actual Red movement. Authoritarians who create food shortages should be terminated by the people whom they pretend to "serve." Our Constitution places 'The People' as the backstop against any tyrannical government, as it guarantees a "Republican" (representative) form of government in Article 4, Section 4, elected by citizens, and the means to enforce the guarantee was provided by the Second Amendment; however, the unchecked, massive importation of third world subjects, quite intentional, from places like Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and Red China have significantly altered the demographics of those living in the US, the very targets of democrats who are Hell-bent to bestow US citizenship upon their communist/Sharia-centric comrades. This November may be the last chance for we citizens to preserve and protect our Republic by massively outvoting the rising leftist tide in American politics. Kamala represents Obama's "transformation" in action.
3 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Bogasso 8/15/2024 12:34:52 PM (No. 1778413)
Looks like we will all be losing weight. Authoritarians will take credit for it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/15/2024 12:48:02 PM (No. 1778419)
1972—price controls on gasoline and long lines to get gas. When prices were allowed to follow the market, the lines disappeared. WW 2– there was the OPA, the Office of Price Administration that controlled prices on everything, with the excuse that it was for the war effort. There was rationing on gasoline and ration books for butter, sugar and milk. I know because I was there! But you could get all you wanted on the Black Market! All it took was more money for what you wanted. So, will ration books with coupons be issued under the Kamala plan? That’s what will happen. She has openly gone full Commie!
5 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/15/2024 1:09:09 PM (No. 1778433)
But.... but..... the Federal government setting a price on something is itself 'Price Fixing' is it not?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 8/15/2024 1:14:37 PM (No. 1778437)
You want less food?
This is how you get less food.
3 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/15/2024 1:26:10 PM (No. 1778441)
Anybody see a pattern here? Price controls, rent caps, minimum wage mandates, wealth tax... This is classic communist central command economy. Who the hell really wants this? How are they even finding anybody that would willingly vote for this suicide?
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/15/2024 2:40:54 PM (No. 1778489)
This is not a policy; it is a control measure. While she is at, could she cap government costs?
2 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
privateer 8/15/2024 3:55:28 PM (No. 1778524)
If they intend to do that, they might just as well also remove all FDA laws against food adulterants, and also the requirement of listing ingredients in order of percentage of content. Because that's the only way the supply can be stretched far enough to prevent riots.
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