The Kamala Harris campaign's tagline is "A New Way Forward," which is odd since she represents the old way forward that has made everything from the economy to inflation to border security much worse than it was before she and Joe Biden took office.
One of those issues is of course inflation, which has forced many people practically have to sell plasma to afford food at the grocery store. "Bidenomics" contributed to the problem, and Kamala Harris supported every aspect of this administration's spending, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the most dishonestly, deceptively and ironically titled piece of legislation since the Affordable Care Act.
Harris, of course, places the blame for inflation elsewhere:
As President, I’ll work to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 16, 2024
My plan will include new penalties for companies that exploit crises and break the rules.
And we will support smaller food businesses that are trying to play by the rules and get ahead.
Oh good, the people who made the problems worse have plans to fix the mess they created, which will only make everything worse.
However, Harris has admitted a flaw in her plan to bring down prices, which is the "price gouging" she blames for higher prices on everything isn't really happening very much:
Kamala Harris says ‘very few’ companies are price gouging, despite her pledge to eradicate ithttps://t.co/Em8mtKdTH7 pic.twitter.com/We0X3z85Mq
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) September 20, 2024
Via the Washington Times:
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday acknowledged that corporate price gouging is not widespread, despite her campaign’s instance that it’s rampant and tackling it would bring down costs for Americans.
Speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Leadership Conference, Ms. Harris said it was critical for the administration to tackle “price gouging on behalf of corporations to lower the cost of groceries for Americans.” She accused companies of taking advantage of extreme weather emergencies or the COVID-19 pandemic to raise prices and pad profits.
“People are desperate because of these kinds of emergencies, desperate for support. And then some, you know, corporations — and it’s very few of them that do this — but then jack up prices to make it more difficult for desperate people to just get by,” she said.
If Harris was serious about the real problem she'd call for government to stop printing and spending far more than they bring in (which now is to the tune of about a trillion dollars every hundred days), but of course that's never going to happen.
So she’s going to bring prices down by going after price gouging that is, by her own admission, barely happening.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 20, 2024
Makes sense. https://t.co/oGfaL3jnEr
That sounds about right.
We can be sure of one thing: Harris would not stop the government from doing the thing that actually contributes to inflation:
Or, as Harris calls that, "corporate price gouging."
