Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills and Kamala Harris has chosen corporate greed by vowing to impose price controls, scoffs Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post. This sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry would undermine the principles of supply and demand that should dictate prices. Washington bureaucrats would get to dictate acceptable prices, leading to potential shortages, black markets, and hoarding.
If your opponent claims you're a 'communist,' maybe don't start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls. The introduction of such policies raises concerns about government overreach into market mechanisms and could drastically distort the economy, making it a contentious point in Kamala Harris's campaign, as it risks alienating moderate voters.
His 'folksy' and 'likeable' image notwithstanding, Tim Walz has spent his entire political career working to advance causes that disenfranchise the American worker. This includes raising taxes by nearly $10 billion in Minnesota while also supporting multi-trillion-dollar spending packages that catalyzed soaring inflation, thus exacerbating economic instability for average citizens.
Kamala Harris's vague, bare-bones plan for making housing more affordable has been criticized for potentially raising housing prices instead. Such tepid proposals fail to address the structural issues within the housing market and risk alienating voters who seek real solutions to the ongoing affordability crisis.
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