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Republicans, Economist slam Harris plan to lower food prices: 'Economic lunacy'

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Posted by Fred 2024-08-16 12:17:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-08-16 00:50|| 2024-08-16 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2
The word for this is SOCIALISM.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-08-16 08:47|| 2024-08-16 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 My Country Tried Kamala-Style Price Controls -- It Led Venezuela to Disaster

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-16 10:38|| 2024-08-16 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Price controls = scarcity (time and time again)

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-16 11:12|| 2024-08-16 11:12|| Front Page Top

#5 But it will energise her potential voters - especially ones with college "education".

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-16 11:42|| 2024-08-16 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "credentialed"

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-16 11:48|| 2024-08-16 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Dave Ramsey explains why Kamala Harris' price control plan will not curb inflation: 'It's not sustainable'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-16 12:08|| 2024-08-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Buying votes.

I didn't have 'Buying votes with starvation' on my bingo card.

Posted by CrazyFool in Texas 2024-08-16 12:26|| 2024-08-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 What is America to do about its communist problem?
The Constitution and Communism are incompatible.
Being Anti-Communist is obviously not enough.
Solutions need to start being discussed.

Posted by mossomo 2024-08-16 12:53|| 2024-08-16 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ And should be done so offline. Bring back the salons of old and plan for reestablishing The Enlightenment.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-08-16 13:00|| 2024-08-16 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Chicago businesses are boarding up their windows in anticipation of Dem Convention riots and looting.

Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-08-16 15:25|| 2024-08-16 15:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Chicago Businesses Boarding Up Ahead of Democratic National Convention for Fear of Mass Riots

Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-08-16 15:48|| 2024-08-16 15:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Glav's link

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-16 17:39|| 2024-08-16 17:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Come on, man! Just because price controls never worked in the history of Ever does not necessarily mean they won't work now. If you keep flipping a coin, it eventually comes up heads, amirite?

And if we are being pedantic, price controls *do* work, at least in the short term. "Short term" being the week or so it takes for the supply chain to empty and for producers to realize that if a thing costs $2 to make, selling it for $1 is not a winning move. But that's nothing more wage & price controls can't fix, at least until the entire economy craters.

It only took us 66 years to go from manned flight at Kitty Hawk to landing on the Moon. If centrally-planned economies could work, someone would have done it by now. In the meantime, we need to nationalize everything to stop wreckers, hoarders, and kulaks from gumming up the works.

Posted by SteveS 2024-08-16 19:56|| 2024-08-16 19:56|| Front Page Top

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