OK, I think she just put her first foot wrong. Prices were up 1% on groceries this past year. This is bizarre - brings back memories of ‘70s price controls.
What do you think? |
She announced national protection for reproductive rights earlier. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act too. |
I’m so grateful that Harris is putting price gouging on the list of priorities. Yes, she’s starting with food. But price gouging is pervasive across goods and services since Covid / 2020. She’s starting with the most fundamental but this sends a warning shot. The expert prosecutor in action. Hopefully cars and over-the-counter medicines will be next. |
How will she go about it? |
How do you determine when companies are price gauging? |
Most of them have been, the past couple years. There's data. |
Y'all have been yapping about how inflation and the economy is the most important issue for you. Well, here you go. |
I think she’s a communist spouting communist policies. |
+1 What should her first priority be? Price gouging especially on groceries is impacts 90% of us. |
so then you are fine with companies offshoring jobs, right? Because that's capitalism. A government that tells companies what they can and cannot do, including offshoring jobs, is communist, right? |
Why are you in favor of price gouging? |
Please tell us about this data and where it is. |
Tell us what groceries you want price controls on and what you plan to substitute for them if they are sold out because of short supply.
This is not a good move. |
![]() Republicans are clowns. |
That's kind of funny. Outside of wartime controls, the history of price controls in the US consists of two events AFAIK: Hepburn Act, 1906, sponsored by a Republican Nixon-era price controls, Nixon's executive order in 1974 freezing wages and prices for 90 days |