Late last night it was reported by the New York Times that Kamala will announce a policy proposal of her own in a speech tomorrow, and it’s a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries:
Vice President Kamala Harris will call for a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in a speech laying out her economic agenda on Friday, campaign officials said late Wednesday, in an effort to blame big companies for persistently high costs of American consumer staples.
The plan includes large overlaps with efforts that the Biden administration has pursued for several years to target corporate consolidation and price gouging, including attempts to stoke more competition in the meat industry and the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit this year that seeks to block the merger of two large grocery retailers, Kroger and Albertsons.
In other words, price controls.
As many on X were quick to point out, this is “literally communism”:
Kamala Harris is literally proposing price controls on food. This is literally what the Soviets did and the results will be scarcity and higher costs.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 15, 2024
Kamala finally comes out with an original policy proposal of her own and it’s literally COMMUNISM https://t.co/lJ087QDwDs
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) August 15, 2024
Kamala Harris goes full-on Marxist, wants price controls on food — instead of fixing the underlying problem of exorbitant borrowing & spending.
Ready for bread lines??? pic.twitter.com/e59iDFS8FS
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) August 15, 2024
Ben Shapiro foresees how this might play in a Q&A with Kamala:
Kamala: High prices are because of GREED!
Wait, there was no greed under Trump?
Kamala: No, there was. But they're GREEDIER NOW!
Why?
Kamala: SHUT UP! PRICE CONTROLS!
Wait, hasn't that failed literally everywhere?
This would be why Kamala will take 0 questions.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 15, 2024
His point is sound.
This is also something that Biden has long since done as president, blaming corporations for gouging prices on food and gas when it’s been his policies of trying to force America into green energy that has pushed up prices.
But calling for federal price controls takes this to another level and the Soviets would clearly be proud. This is who she is.