Kamala Harris Gets Roasted for Disastrous Plan to Introduce 'Price Controls'

"Now we know why Kamala Harris has been hiding from the American people."

Now we know why Kamala Harris has been hiding from the American people.

We are one policy into the Harris-Walz campaign and it is already a complete disaster.

On Thursday, it was reported that the Vice President and unelected Democratic Party nominee for president Kamala Harris will be unveiling an economic plan that might as well be torn out of the pages of a 1970s Pravda issue.

In her flailing effort to distinguish Kamalanomics from Bidenomics (old Joe is quite touchy about this topic, it turns out) she is dredging up some of her old ideas and repackaging them as “solutions” to the affordability crisis that she and her supposed boss President Biden have wrought on Americans.

Her big idea? A federal ban on corporate price-gouging. One can do no better than the Washington Post in summing up the reaction to this insipid proposal.

Here is Catherine Rampell in a refreshing dose of economic literacy, not to mention sanity, at WaPo:

It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from. Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.

In a news release Wednesday, her campaign said the first 100 days of her presidency would include the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries — setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”

Despite this being a terrible, horrible, no good, rotten idea, the Democrats are pleased that it is polling well with economically illiterate Americans.

That is why it is critical to understand that Kamala Harris’ economic policies will spell doom for the United States economy as we know it.

Harris is slated to deliver remarks in the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday to discuss these economic proposals. Her campaign, in a backhanded slap at her own ineptitude and incompetence while in office, has said she will focus on plans to lower the cost of groceries.

These are all things that would have been helpful, say, three-and-a-half years ago.

The vice president will lament that soaring meat prices are spiking grocery bills (a complaint that WEF overlord Klaus Schwab would no doubt approve.)

So, like a good little Marxist, she will shun government complicity in creating the affordability crisis with easy money and reckless spending and point the finger at those greedy corporate baddies who are the scapegoats in this Harris stage production.

Heritage Foundation, “The Road to Inflation: How an Unprecedented Federal Spending Spree Created Economic Turmoil,” September 2023

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has brought a much more poignant “kitchen table” approach to the affordability debate.

Trump highlighted the ghastly price increases under the Harris-Biden administration.

This is a campaign pitch that will no doubt be copied by the Kamaleon Harris campaign. Her vice presidential call to Tim Walz is a carbon copy of the J.D. Vance call. And not only did Kamala Harris plagiarize Trump’s “no taxes on tips,” It turns out that she is a raging hypocrite on the matter.

Donald Trump really nailed Kamala Harris recently on this penchant of hers to be a serial plagiarizer, just like her quitter of a boss Joe Biden.

“Kamala Harris won’t end the economic crisis. She will only make it worse. And why hasn’t she done it? She talks about it,” he said. “She’s doing a plan, you know, she’s going to announce it this week, maybe. She’s waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it.”

On Wednesday, Trump’s sidekick J.D. Vance roasted a New York Times reporter who had the temerity to play word games with the Yale Law School grad.

"When they say that inflation is down, they mean from a baseline where groceries are already 30% more expensive than they were when Donald Trump was president,” Vance said. “That is not a record to brag on, that's a record to be ashamed of."

But as we all know by now, Democrats are incapable of shame.