Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes.
Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes.
Former President Donald Trump is attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan for a federal ban on price gouging by grocery stores and food suppliers as “Soviet-style” controls.
But Republican state officials across the country have embraced the idea of capping excessive prices for years.
GOP state attorneys general, as well as many of their Democratic counterparts, have moved to stop companies from charging what they view as exorbitant increases in the cost of some goods in certain circumstances.
In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued a large egg supplier for raising prices by about 300 percent at the height of the pandemic lockdowns in 2020.
Laws that help regular people are communism and bad. Laws that help rich people are capitalism and good.
It’s baffling that this idiotic messaging has controlled American politics for 4 decades.
Edit: meant to reply elsewhere but I’m leaving it.
Only words left in the conservative vocabulary: "Socialism" and "Communism." Every time they don't like something, they just indiscriminately slap one of those labels on it.
Wait, we're not doing "woke" anymore?
It's also just literally not communism. That's just the word they use when there is no real argument. Americans have been conditioned by 50+ years of "communism bad", so it tends to work, especially as a conservative dog whistle.
Most of the stuff they label as communist or socialist actually sounds great.
I mean capped prices at the shop? Awful. /s
The bad bits of communism and Socialism are basically greed, corruption, and nepotism - and we have plenty of that anyway.
Fuck suing these looters; anyone that was gouging during the pandemic should be put up against a wall so they know what happens to looters during a international emergency.
My prediction for this courts interpretation:
Money is speech, and corporations are people, ergo banning price gouging is an explicit violation of the corporations first amendment rights.
The GOP is communist.
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Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies is losing his battle with dementia. He's always been dumb as fuck, but now the dementia is really tightening its grip. It's sad, he should just drop out.
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Honestly any of these price controls by governments are quite terrible and usually just form of populism.
Actually it’s not even beneficial for markets to artificially increase prices.
Oh, so therefore the Invisible Hand will prevent artificial price increases. We only imagined prices increasing while companies were boasting of record profits.
Man forgets that people don't operate with the good of "the market" in mind.
Won't someone think of the market?!?