Price gouging as her first policy announcement? Really?

[Anonymous]

Food and Grocery companies are not price gouging and aren't getting rich, the cost of these things have gone up. The only real price gouging is contractors doing work on houses of that is because of govt regulations subsidizing home repairs and renovations for energy savings. So it's short sighted to go after grocery stores when its deeper than that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually quite clever. All the economists are freaking out and then she'll say it's a prohibition of prices increases of CPI + 25% or more and she'll say why do you support such huge increases?

So what happens when there are global supply chain disruptions? We had quite a few the last few years, and there are no signs of that changing anytime soon.

In other words, supply chain disruptions can happen for a variety of reasons. Typically, an "anti-gouging" policy aims to target only the most egregious price increases. It doesn't have much of an impact on the market, since it targets outlier prices, not market rate prices.

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Anonymous wrote:If you deported all the illegals there would be more supply and less demand for everything.

And labor costs would spike, so it wouldn't bring the purchase price down.

Great, well let’s try it and see who is right.

Let's start with the illegals working on Trump properties.

(this is why it won't happen....it is all rhetoric to keep people like you angry)

Sure, go for it. I’m not angry and I’m not a Republican, but you sound awful angry.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

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The FTC already found evidence that the companies that run grocery stores are price gouging.
https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic

So what? That's the way the economy works.

If I'm a businesses, I'm going to raise my prices as high as I possibly can to maximize profits. Duh......it's as if Dems cannot understand basics business 101 and microeconomics 101. If I raise my prices too much, then consumers stop buying and my profits go down.

Why do companies keep raising prices? Because consumers keep paying! Why do consumers keep paying? Because they're flush with so much cash due to massive govt money printing and free cash handouts. This is literally inflation 101. It's hilarious how Dems cannot understand this..

Who has received payouts in the last two years?

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:If you deported all the illegals there would be more supply and less demand for everything.

There won’t be more supply. But there will be less demand, and less “free” money to spend on it.

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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.

But this is all based on a lie, like everything else he says. The US is already energy independent. He wants to open national parks for drilling, which will only hurt the environment and help oil companies when we should be focusing on clean energy. It’s such bunk.

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Anonymous wrote:Because large price increases across the entire macro economy are allllllll resultant from wide spread collusion to fix prices, gouge, and ripoff customers. It couldn't possibly be due to the simple concept of inflation.

Jesus, Dems are so dimwitted. When you print and inject trillions of dollars into the economy, more money goes around. More money= more spending = more demand = higher prices. It's really that simple.

Remember, it was Biden who handed out a trillion in stimulus and another round stimi checks as soon as he got into office because the Dems were desperate to win the GA runoff. I still remember AOC going ballistic back in 2021 about handing out more stimi checks.

Gee, who'd have ever guessed they when you pump the economy with trillions of printed cash inflation goes up. But they wanna blame wide spread conspiracy theories that every single industry out there is colluding with one another to raise prices for consumers. Dems are a really low IQ.

Uh, the GA runoff happened before Biden took office.

You really have no idea what you are talking about.

Wrong dimwit. The whole runoff was surrounded by Dems promising that if they gave the Dems control of the senate, Biden would sign stimi checks. It was a cash bribery to voters to try to sway the election. Lo and behold Biden signs the stimi checks and dropped another trillion+ dollars of unneeded stimi into the economy in 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/georgia-senate-runoff-election-results/index.html

Moments ago, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer congratulated Warnock and Ossoff, saying that “one of the first things” he wants to do as Senate Majority Leader is pass $2,000 stimulus checks.

Thank you for the inflation Dems. Your insane money printing and free cash handouts are what led to it, not wide spread conspiracy theories for price gouging. It’s really amazing how short term of a memory Dems have.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The FTC already found evidence that the companies that run grocery stores are price gouging.
https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic

So what? That's the way the economy works.

If I'm a businesses, I'm going to raise my prices as high as I possibly can to maximize profits. Duh......it's as if Dems cannot understand basics business 101 and microeconomics 101. If I raise my prices too much, then consumers stop buying and my profits go down.

Why do companies keep raising prices? Because consumers keep paying! Why do consumers keep paying? Because they're flush with so much cash due to massive govt money printing and free cash handouts. This is literally inflation 101. It's hilarious how Dems cannot understand this..

The bolded us true. But then the GOP us calling it "inflation" when that isn't what it is. So she is trying to address that.

Address what? The free market economy?


Maybe she should address the trillions of dollars she and Biden printed that stoked inflation.

[Anonymous]

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.

Because it will make the economy worse, not better. It will seem better for a couple years, but then small companies will go out of business because of profit losses, mid size companies will be bought up by big businesses, then eventually someone will end the price ban and suddenly you have huge monopolies and few little companies left. Then you have no control over prices and majority of the goods you want are sold by one company. Before long you’ll look like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The FTC already found evidence that the companies that run grocery stores are price gouging.
https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic

So what? That's the way the economy works.

If I'm a businesses, I'm going to raise my prices as high as I possibly can to maximize profits. Duh......it's as if Dems cannot understand basics business 101 and microeconomics 101. If I raise my prices too much, then consumers stop buying and my profits go down.

Why do companies keep raising prices? Because consumers keep paying! Why do consumers keep paying? Because they're flush with so much cash due to massive govt money printing and free cash handouts. This is literally inflation 101. It's hilarious how Dems cannot understand this..

The bolded us true. But then the GOP us calling it "inflation" when that isn't what it is. So she is trying to address that.

Address what? The free market economy?


Maybe she should address the trillions of dollars she and Biden printed that stoked inflation.

This. Or the incredible overspending done by the government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

But this is all based on a lie, like everything else he says. The US is already energy independent. He wants to open national parks for drilling, which will only hurt the environment and help oil companies when we should be focusing on clean energy. It’s such bunk.

We import more oil than we export, so we’re not energy independent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Food and Grocery companies are not price gouging and aren't getting rich, the cost of these things have gone up. The only real price gouging is contractors doing work on houses of that is because of govt regulations subsidizing home repairs and renovations for energy savings. So it's short sighted to go after grocery stores when its deeper than that.

The food and grocery industry have been making huge profits. They started jacking prices up during the pandemic, initially due to supply chain issues, but as the supply chain issues were resolved, they continued jacking up prices and increasing their profit margins. They very much are gouging.

https://qz.com/supermarket-prices-grocery-food-inflation-pandemic-1851369826