Price gouging as her first policy announcement? Really?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Perception is reality, so to all the people who are struggling to afford groceries because of corporate greed, this may play well no matter what the price data says.

+1 this is the answer

The proposal will likely not impact prices very much but will aim to send a message her administration cares about inflation. Consumers don't understand that reduced inflation (which has already happened) doesn't mean prices go down again, so this is how they tell voters "we hear you and we care".

It is a smart move.

It's not really. She is apart of the current administration so does she not care right now when prices are high?

If this were the answer to inflation why not do it now?

The same goes for anything she is proposing. It's an awkward position to be in to say your going to solve problems that you are CURRENTLY in a position to solve.

[Anonymous]

Any serious person knows that the solution to inflation is not outlawing high prices. That's like saying the solution to healthcare costs is outlaw people getting sick. Harris should have followed the old saying "it's better to be silent and have people think you are fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

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Anonymous wrote:Price gouging would help millions and millions of Americans every single day so I am 100% for it as are my fiscally conservative relatives

+1 now all of a sudden MAGA are fine with inflation.

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The Roman Empire tried to do price controls after they artificially inflated their ones supply by diluting the amount of silver in their currency.


Look how they ended up. Many vote those two reasons for why the great Roman republic collapsed. It’s almost as if Dems never opened a history book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any serious person knows that the solution to inflation is not outlawing high prices. That's like saying the solution to healthcare costs is outlaw people getting sick. Harris should have followed the old saying "it's better to be silent and have people think you are fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

? um no, that would be like saying we need to regulate healthcare costs, which ANY normal person would agree with.

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^ artificially inflated their money supply*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could push for all schools to grow crops. Those crops can be used for lunches and sent home for kids that need them.

Children at schools can’t wipe down lunch tables or empty trash for their teacher; how do you think it would work for students to be working in the fields? Are teachers going to double as foreman to make the children work in the fields? Who is going to inspect, process, and package raw crops into consumer foodstuffs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any serious person knows that the solution to inflation is not outlawing high prices. That's like saying the solution to healthcare costs is outlaw people getting sick. Harris should have followed the old saying "it's better to be silent and have people think you are fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

? um no, that would be like saying we need to regulate healthcare costs, which ANY normal person would agree with.

It is scary people like you are allowed to vote.


So the govt can print infinite amounts of money, the solution to controlling high prices resultant from that will be to install prices controls?

JFC, please don’t reproduce. USA is going full blown Venezuela at this rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing. I don't care anything about this, but when people are constantly complaining about prices and inflation, and then she tries to propose a solution, it's heresy.

What do you want from her exactly? Trump hasn't said 2 words beyond, prices are up. Ok.

He’s talked repeatedly about fixing gas pipelines and bringing the US back to a place of energy independence and then energy dominance. Decreasing gas prices will naturally decrease the cost of goods across the board.

Alone, that doesn't solve the issue. Plus, we already are producing at record high rates. And yet, food prices are still high. Why? Because it's not just about high oil prices, which we don't currently have a problem with.



https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any serious person knows that the solution to inflation is not outlawing high prices. That's like saying the solution to healthcare costs is outlaw people getting sick. Harris should have followed the old saying "it's better to be silent and have people think you are fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

? um no, that would be like saying we need to regulate healthcare costs, which ANY normal person would agree with.

It is scary people like you are allowed to vote.


So the govt can print infinite amounts of money, the solution to controlling high prices resultant from that will be to install prices controls?

JFC, please don’t reproduce. USA is going full blown Venezuela at this rate.

oh, so you're ok with high food prices now? And high healthcare costs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Roman Empire tried to do price controls after they artificially inflated their ones supply by diluting the amount of silver in their currency.


Look how they ended up. Many vote those two reasons for why the great Roman republic collapsed. It’s almost as if Dems never opened a history book.

That's not why the Roman empire collapsed. Maybe you need to open a history book yourself.

https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-why-rome-fell

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Anonymous wrote: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?

I think it’s a great idea! Someone needs to go after all these corporations stealing everyone’s money. There’s no such thing as inflation there’s only companies soaking people with high prices. Biden said this last year.

The government should determine prices on everything. They’ll do it fairly with regards to people’s income and with equity being a factor too. BIPOC and low SES consumers should be charged less than MC/UMC/wealthy whites because they’ve been historically marginalized.

^^^^ absolutely THIS ^^^^

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You could push for all schools to grow crops. Those crops can be used for lunches and sent home for kids that need them.

Children at schools can’t wipe down lunch tables or empty trash for their teacher; how do you think it would work for students to be working in the fields? Are teachers going to double as foreman to make the children work in the fields? Who is going to inspect, process, and package raw crops into consumer foodstuffs?

You don’t know to to pick a carrot, wash it, and chop it? God help us!

[Anonymous]

I don't drink soda but had to purchase a 12-pack for a party. It was $10.99 as the sale price at Giant. I stood there in disbelief. Since when is a case of soda that much? Definitely, some gouging going on.

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For those who think fixing prices on food is "anti-American"... do you not realize that we currently have regulation over pricing of certain foods?

Milk, grains, corn... that may not be regulating end product, but regulating prices for farmers also impacts your food prices at the grocery store.