The only thing she can really do to limit prices is to support healthy supply chains and strengthen antitrust laws and enforcement. Healthy competition and supply chains are the only real means of controlling prices in capitalist markets.
Price gouging is simply a pejorative for capitalism. There really is no such thing in a market based economy.
She never said anything about using the government to control prices. She said that she would use the government to investigate sudden price spikes that may be ripping consumers off. At least get your facts straight here.
The government should support healthy markets. Period.
Sure, the Trump campaign is totally acting like they are the likely winners right now. That's why they want as many debates as they can possibly get.
The bulk of his voters have been boomers. Some 5,000 due everyday. Millions of boomers have died since both 2016 and 2020. He's absolutely lost a lot of voters. The question is has he replaced them?
Which is why we have anti price gouging laws. Price gouging doesn't make for healthy markets. It makes for wild swings.
Why do you keep saying natural disasters? It's for any emergency. And even red states agree that it's necessary.
So the reason for those particular laws is to address rare instances of complete market dislocation created by extraordinary events. They are not intended to provide any fixing of prices outside of those situations.
And Harris doesn't seem to be straying from this. You get that, right?
Emergencies and natural disasters…sorry. Virtually all states have those laws because they’re special circumstances.
This is correct. Arguments could be made that any emergency can create severe market dislocation whereby it ceases to operate as intended. Covid fell into that category.
Her entire statement is that we should be able to investigate sudden spikes in prices to see what options we have. So if the housing market suddenly jumps 20% in one month, you're telling me that we shouldn't be able to investigate and address that?
You didn’t ask me but I finally got tired of you pushing this “price control” narrative which NO ONE has suggested other than republicans trying to reframe the message. And I really don’t want to put you on ignore but I do hope you can be willing to debate in good faith; you being a both-sides centrist and all.
When she says things like she's going to drop food prices on day 1, I have to ask how? What's the underlying policy and what's the emergency other than she wants to get elected?
Lots of things fall under this. Personally I want the government to be on top of sudden unforeseen spikes in the market.
Having controls to deal with price gouging is a good start. Beyond that, it's just a campaign promise. A promise far far smaller than Trump's wild promises to fix prices I might add.
Trump's a ****ing idiot. I would prefer that the Dems don't try and compete with that.
It’s decided by the middle, minorities, and women in just a handful of states. Outside of those few it doesn’t matter how they vote which demonstrates how fvcking stupid our electoral system is.
Or, just don’t vote for either presidential candidate. 🤔
lol…what a load of horseshit. There’s no “market-based economy” when supply is controlled by a few.
Trump actually contacted Walz early on in the Minneapolis riots to offer nat’l guard support, but witless Walz chose to wait before deploying them.
Good thing the Dems aren't. Stop pretending they are.
Harris is a cackling idiot and that's all she'll ever be. The "excitement" is either manufactured or it's pure Trump hate. NOT because she's fantastic and has anything to offer with helping the US with its problems. She's by far the worst of the 3 candidates and would get steam-rolled in on the world political stage. Sorry, but she's a weak-ass candidate and those people with half a brain or greater realize it.
Says the guy proving he only has half a brain.
