Harris to Propose Federal Ban on Food and Grocery Price Gouging

Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris delivers a major policy speech today on healthcare. On Friday, she's expected to call for a federal ban on food and grocery price gouging as part of a broader set of proposals intended to reduce consumer costs. The economy is taking center stage of the campaign today. Bloomberg's Laura Davison reports.
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[skyqueen]

Price controls don't work. If one think's they work, one hasn't read enough history.

[jamesbryant]

I propose a federal ban on income tax gouging.

[ortho-g]

That's a steaming pile of horse manure. That's like saying it's the public's fault that the dollar has collapsed.

[michaeleli]

How about a ban on Government deficit spending… you know… the root cause of INFLATION.

[liberty-matrix]

These aren't news reporters, they're political activists.

[richardm]

This is the dumbest talking point the media has ever fixated on. She’s in office now!!

[xlZENlx]

Literal. Communism. Literally. This is EXCATLY what the Soviet union did.

[Michael-ttwx]

We the people need to set a ban on stupid politicians ideas

[ClassicFIHD]

She wants $20 minimum wage, gas prices are high, shipping costs are high, utility costs are high, who's price gouging? Food chains are closing up shops all over the place. Businesses are dropping like flies. What planet does she live on?

[bryanboothexprealtyAlabama]

Couldn’t she simply walk into Joe Biden office and ask him to do this right now and then take credit for it to help win the election?

[Red-ctwx]

Remember everyone she has done absolutely nothing for the past four years now all of a sudden she’s promising everything and she will never deliver nothing!! ♥️

[BobGibney]

Price controls. If you're over 50 you'll remember how that went. Those younger are damned to repeat it.

[UncleStepon]

Why is she just pushing all this now, like she hasn’t been in DC for the last few years.

[josephburleton]

Right, because it has nothing to do with the devaluation of the dollar. But by all means keep printing money.

[TimChaney-lrqu]

I'm so tired of hearing her say"on day one"SHE'S BEEN IN OFFICE ALMOST 4 would anyone with any common sense believe that she is going to do anything now?

[susanfortwendel]

I remember Harris breaking a tie in the Senate about taxes on tips. Of course at the time she was all for it.

[captivehonor]

The high gas prices are why food is so high. Nobody is price gouging. Printing money non stop doesn't help either.

[KurtElliott]

*Gas is over $4 a gallon in California, I call that democrats price gouging gas!!!*

[tristanwiley]

That's sounds great, but why hasn't it happened yet? Price gouging was at the forefront in 2020, when she was in office, and she did nothing to abate it. She's floating all these lofty ideas she's had 3.5 years to implement. What's gonna change if she's president?

[quibbledangle]

You know as well as I do that's not happening! Kamala isn't gonna do anything just like Biden.