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Even CNN—normally a reliable mouthpiece for the DNC—jumped in with two separate segments savaging Kamala's "price gouging" proposals, which seem to come straight out of Venezuela.
We'll start with the network's Economics and Political Commentator Catherine Rampell, who went off on Kamala's Marxist ideas for almost a full two and a half minutes:
...first of all, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It's like that old line about pornography; I know it when I see it. In the sense that what does it mean to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin? That seems to be shorthand for a price or a profit margin that bugs me, that seems too high. //
It's not going to be markets, it's not going to be supply and demand that's determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs. It's going to be some bureaucrat in DC, which seems totally unworkable, first of all.
We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before-- Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etcetera. It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, you know, [and] plenty of uncertainty…