Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed on Wednesday evening after her campaign announced that she would be revealing leftist price control measures to rein in inflation.
Harris helped spark the crisis three years ago when she cast the tie-breaking vote that moved President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan forward in the U.S. Senate. Inflation rates skyrocketed within weeks of the bill being signed into law.
Harris is seeking to follow in Biden’s footsteps by continuing the Biden-Harris administration’s policy of blaming “corporate greed” for the pain that consumers feel when shopping — a cynical and dishonest ploy designed to take advantage of people’s emotions who do not understand the root cause of inflation.
Harris will impose “the first-ever federal ban on corporate price-gouging” on grocers, left-wing NBC News reporter Yamiche Alcindor posted on X. Harris will “impose stiff penalties in the food industry,” the campaign said.
Harris’s policy, the first original policy she has rolled out during her campaign after her first policy was one she stole from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, drew instant comparisons to price controls used by the Soviet Union that only temporarily slowed prices from rising but resulted in drastic shortages of food and consumer goods.
“Kamala Harris is literally proposing price controls on food,” said RealClearPolitics senior writer Mark Hemingway. “This is literally what the Soviets did and the results will be scarcity and higher costs.”
Helen Raleigh, an immigrant from communist China, responded to Harris’ policy by writing on X: “Government-imposed price control is a terrible idea because it makes the economy worse by causing shortages. Everyone who survived socialism/communism knows this: if the store shelves are empty, it doesn’t matter how low the government claims the price of bread is.”
Government-imposed price control is a terrible idea because it makes the economy worse by causing shortages. Everyone who survived socialism/communism knows this: if the store shelves are empty, it doesn’t matter how low the government claims the price of bread is. https://t.co/fa65WzeMTK
— Helen Raleigh (@HRaleighspeaks) August 15, 2024
Republican strategist Matt Whitlock responded to the news: “So Kamala Harris is going to (pretend to) counter the high prices (she caused) by instituting some kind of communist government price controls on grocery stores. Absurd.”
“A federal ban on price gouging! Why didn’t anyone think of that before?” author David Bernstein mockingly asked. “We can just order prices to come down by government fiat! What could go wrong?”
Popular conservative X account AG posted: “So instead of dealing with the actual sources of inflation, the Harris plan is going to be to continue to pretend price increases are a result of price gouging in an industry with razor thin margins.”
“Her first policy proposal was straight theft of a lower common denominator pander to one electorally significant demo,” said National Review writer Noah Rothman. “Her second is an attack on market signals that incentivize firms to meet specific demands. This isn’t a high minded campaign.”
Another popular account on X posted: “Oh my god… In Kamala’s first ever policy speech on Friday she’s going to announce… price controls. Welcome to Kamalanomics.”
“Kamala Harris is running a marketing campaign for president that isn’t even attempting to provide any real substance,” another user posted. “This is another example of how she’s trying to win over voters with gimmicks and ‘vibes’ that won’t amount to much but creates a villain to run against.”
Funny thing is if kamala and biden were so concerned about price gouging ,why did they allow the owners of the albertsons grocery chain buy the safeway grocery chain and the krogers grocery chain? Allowing one company to have a monopoly on the grocery market so that all 3 chains had the same price on goods did not seem to bother a living soul in the biden/harris administration for the last 4 years, what makes harris care about the price of food now? Oh yeah, she doesn’t she just needs the voters to believe she does.
Biden/Harris admin in a nutshell…
American Rescue Plan….no Americans were rescued. In fact, Americans were abandonded in Afghanistan! Economy is crap!
Infrastructure Bill…nothing about upgrading the infrastructure has been done!
Build Back Better….nothing has been built back better!
All money designated for these “plans”, have been sent to Ukraine!
Biden has been cognitively impaired since before he was installed in office in 2020, and Harris s complicit in hiding this fact! So has the first bimbo Jilly!
A vote for Harris is a vote for 4 more years of nothing good for Americans!
They say that she is using AI in her advertising showing a very large crowd so happy to hear what she has to say, when in reality there’s only maybe a hundred people!
She is not very bright to begin with but now she is smart, all made up and phony as hell!
Now she knows how to fix things?
REALLY?
She is a liar. Always was and always will be. Communism is about control of the people, costs, and where you can travel and live. I would love to see her living in a homeless camp where she can try to have control of the shit in the streets situation. That is all she is good for.
Remember who supported this and how the population came to accept it when you’re looking at your family and they’re starving to death. It’s a long list that has repeated itself throughout history.