"It's Communism": Kamala's First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To "Combat Inflation"
2 years ago by Amoxtli to c/conservative
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.
Communism is not price controls, Jesus. It's the state seizing assets from wealthy people and nationalizing businesses. Regulating how businesses can operate in a capitalist system is nothing new. You could call it socialism and even that's a stretch.
How do you have price controls without prices? Price regulation is explicitly a phenomenon in market economies.
@Amoxtli @tacosanonymous Maybe he doesn't trust #WaPo, #Time, #CNBC, #TheHill, #NBCNews, or #ABCNews
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:
Record profits from grocery stores and food suppliers. But please, tell me more about how they can't afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.
Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.
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.
@aniki @wintermute_oregon "Only mean people have healthy margins in their business ventures" is the quintessential terminally online take
@wintermute_oregon @Amoxtli To be fair to the others, this isn't technically #Socialism or #Communism, it's a #MixedMarket. Problem is that you're also right, this is how we drift away from #Capitalism.
The left wingers in the thread aren't upset that this is being called out because it's inaccurate, it's because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.
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@lemm.ee
We like leftists and liberals.
We want to ban all guns.
We want free healthcare.
We want UBI.
We don't mind being taxed.
We want to give everyone a free abortion!
go to feed...
I can’t imagine a world where I would post that link seriously.
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