Kamrade Kamala's Solution to Inflation - New Policy Proposal

Still with the desperation ET?

Also, (who) uses Breitbart as a source?

 

That's awesome news! Thanks OP. Kamala 2024

 

Actually breaking up monopolies and oligopolies along with preventing defacto collusion and price fixing isn't Soviet style price fixing it's ensuring that free market capitalism functions more effectively. Unless I missed it Harris never proposed that the government actually set prices. Vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws isn't price fixing, it's the opposite.

 

I’m good with someone proposing a solution. Anti price-gouging and price-fixing laws are nothing new…. Even that communist socialist state of Florida has them….

 

Actually the Time magazine article seems to track my post which focuses on Harris's proposal to enforce anti-trust laws, not so much with the Breitbart article which implies that Harris will propose actual price controls under which the government sets prices. She didn't and will not do so. From the Time article.

Harris plans to direct the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies to investigate and penalize “big corporations” that violate the rules, and to find other ways of tackling price fixing and other anti-competitive practices in the food and grocery industries, her campaign said late Wednesday night.

Harris, in her speech, will specifically single out the highly consolidated meat industry, deeming its processing middlemen “particularly egregious” price fixers with a history of being found to have illegally controlled prices.

She also plans to direct her administration to carefully scrutinize proposed mergers between large food companies with an emphasis on considering whether they will result in higher grocery prices for consumers. That work would include continuing to examine the proposed merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos., which faces challenges from the FTC and several states.​

 

Poor Pub victims of rampant socialism. Poster must abhor forcing Big Pharma to charge Americans about the prices the rest of the world already pays.
U.S. Announces Prices for First Drugs Picked for Medicare Negotiations
"The Biden administration on Thursday announced the results of landmark price negotiations between Medicare and the pharmaceutical companies over the prices of 10 costly or common medications taken by millions of older Americans.
Had the new prices been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved $6 billion, administration officials said.
The selected drugs account for some of the highest Medicare spending, have been on the market for years and do not face competition."

 

Oh, the humanity!! How dare Harris come up with proposals to cut drug prices and housing costs?! What horrors will she think of next?

 

I guess you can call it taking over the economy if you consider enforcement of anti-trust legislation that's been on the books for well over a century to be "taking over the economy". As far as negotiating drug prices is concerned state and local governments do so, private insurance companies do so and even one federal agency, the VA does it.

 

Propaganda should never be misconstrued as an article

 

Here is what Kellyanne and I think about it:

 

Desperate times require desperate measures for Maga.

 

You complain about high grocery prices, so aren't you at least a little concerned about companies making record profits during a period of high inflation? Here's a proposal aimed to address one of your biggest concerns and yet you hate it.

 

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So if Trump would’ve proposed this, you would’ve been okay with it? You would’ve not started another thread bashing him? Just curious.

 

I've heard that a few times, and the "wealthy" part keeps standing out to me. Who has praised Kamala for being "so wealthy" lol? Was that a MAGA projection since Trump so often brags about how rich he is?

 

Why hasn't the current administration done something about the price gouging in food products. Apparently, this is such a significant and widespread problem, that it now warrants action by the federal government.

 

Think I saw recent posts praising Trump for trying to lower drug prices. Is that now bad? To me, the devil is in the details. I've never liked the idea of government setting price controls, particularly when consumers have options. However, if government can negotiate more affordable drug prices, for example, I'm good with that. I'm also open to discussion about whether anti-trust laws have been sufficiently enforced.