I can’t imagine a world where I would post that link seriously.
Why? It’s all over Google: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=price+controls+kamala+harris Isn’t communism what you wanted? Communism is price controls historically. In actual practice, prices don’t exist, or matter, in communism, because like socialism, it’s predecessor, it is not an economy, but a society that gifts things based on altruism.
@Amoxtli @tacosanonymous Maybe he doesn’t trust #WaPo, #Time, #CNBC, #TheHill, #NBCNews, or #ABCNews
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-economic-policy-2024/
https://time.com/7011214/kamala-harris-campaign-federal-ban-price-gouging-food-groceries-inflation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/15/harris-corporate-price-gouging-ban-food-election.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4828758-kamala-harris-federal-ban-price-gouging/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/harris-zeroing-high-food-prices-inflation-remains-big-112860716
Uh, those links don’t say it’s “Communism” which is the problem with the one OP posted. Nobody said this story wasn’t true. It’s the idiotic “let’s scare some ignorant rubes, it’s communism!!” angle. The Democratic party isn’t even remotely communist, unfortunately.
@zeppo Sigh…you’re going to argue that price controls aren’t characteristic of #Communism, aren’t you?
#Brittanica describes price controls as non-capitalistic:
https://www.britannica.com/money/price-system/Noncapitalist-price-systems
Sigh… uh, yeah. Communist countries control prices and economic activity to a far greater degree. Like, so much more that it’s absurd to claim that, which is the point here. The link also barely says what you claim it does.
@zeppo Would you agree that, generally, #Communism usually controls prices, and #Capitalism usually does not?
Yes, but that’s an incredibly simplistic point of view. Plenty of capitalist economies also have limits on prices. In the US, over 40 states already have price gouging laws on the books for years, going back to 1979. The EU has enacted various statutes to control prices of consumer goods as well. You could call it socialist, perhaps… but it’s also kind of silly to think that capitalism means unbridled capitalism with no regulation. That’s never been how it worked. When the US nationalizes Walmart, Kroger and ConAgra let me know.
and this is how the starvation starts. With caps on prices, it becomes unprofitable and they just reduce supply. Talk to any survivors of communism and low food supplies has always been an issue.
You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.
It’s an inherent flaw in communism. People starve under the system.
Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?
My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?
Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.
Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
