Price controls on grocery stores? Seriously?

[Ef-man]

Yeah I remember that argument from Ginsburg that abortion will never be illegal for rich white women who can just hop on a plane to another state.

I also heard from a person with extensive cattle ranching experience that cows do not fart cause their intestines are not long.

[SnakeBoy]

We have a party that serves to maintain the wealth and lifestyle of inheritance billionaires, and we have a party who serves to increase it. They have us fight over things that have no effect on them at all. The 1% is not impacted in any way by the legality of abortion, guns, sex change operations, diversity programs, public healthcare, public schools or book banning, so they keep us arguing over them because 1) those things rightfully matter to us, and 2) it keeps us too distracted to band together to take more of what they've ac ulated on our backs.

System works

[baseline bum]

System works

Exactly as the founders designed it to

[SnakeBoy]

Exactly as the founders designed it to

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

[Winehole23]

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

you don't care about that, your side is trying to spoil the election again

[ducks]

Kamala Harris backs Biden’s tax proposals — including a tax on unrealized capital gains



https://www.marke ch.com/story/ka...gains-66c55df2

[pgardn]

I'm comparing to the rest of the rich world. There's no way the DNC isn't right wing by that standard when they still fully support this ridiculous reverse robin hood healthcare system and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into finally letting Medicare negotiate prices on a whole 10 drugs twenty years after Bush made it illegal.

The rich world could be Saudi Arabia, Quatar, or it could be Norway, Denmark. I would use European democracies in the North if I had to start with a known point of comparison of what left might be.

[SnakeBoy]

you don't care about that, your side is trying to spoil the election again

What are you crying about?

[baseline bum]

The rich world could be Saudi Arabia, Quatar, or it could be Norway, Denmark. I would use European democracies in the North if I had to start with a known point of comparison of what left might be.

If you said democracies that would take us out of the group. So let's say the rich western nations. Democrats are a solidly right wing party under that lens.

[Winehole23]

"Votes don't matter. We already have the votes."

[pgardn]

If you said democracies that would take us out of the group. So let's say the rich western nations. Democrats are a solidly right wing party under that lens.

No I would not.
You can vote.

Now I understand the burden of the electoral college. But we still have the vote even though people are trying to screw it up.
You also have a direct vote in Texas. I consider part of being a citizen as trying to tell my side of why I think our State government as it stands now stinks.
I tell people what I think is undemocratic. Imo people have become super selfish. People dont volunteer as much as they used to, etc... That has to change.
It starts at the local level. Thats where we both can have the greatest impact. You can become tired of it, or you can try to change it as an individual.

[baseline bum]

No I would not.
You can vote.

Now I understand the burden of the electoral college. But we still have the vote even though people are trying to screw it up.
You also have a direct vote in Texas. I consider part of being a citizen as trying to tell my side of why I think our State government as it stands now stinks.
I tell people what I think is undemocratic. Imo people have become super selfish. People dont volunteer as much as they used to, etc... That has to change.
It starts at the local level. Thats where we both can have the greatest impact. You can become tired of it, or you can try to change it as an individual.

Local level my ass, all politics is national now.

[spurraider21]

Sorry man that's some real limousine liberal talk hyping the jobless recovery of 2009 as some proof the DNC isn't right wing. Absolute disaster for the working class, similar with the post COVID recovery that has turned so much of the labor market over to crap gig work. But the stock market went up both times. What credit should the DNC get for curbing inflation? Corporations just jacked prices up until they squeezed so much blood out of the people there's not much left. Sorry man, the economy is tanked when you look at what housing costs (there's another criminal conspiracy with RealPage), what education costs (WTF at having to go into so much debt to pay for the right to work a stable job in this nation?), what healthcare costs, and what food costs. This is not a healthy nation and it has been sad watching the US turn more and more into Mexico the last 45 years with the skyrocketing wealth disparity, though a two class society likely is the stable equilibrium of capitalism just like it was here pre WWII.

[ducks]

Since Harris took office:

Total prices are up 20%
Car insurance is up 54%
Hotels are up 51.2%
Gas is up 50.5%
Fuel oil is up 49.1%
Transportation is up 32.9%
Electricity is up 31.7%
Baby food is up 30.1%
Eating out is up 23%
Airfare is up 22.6%
Rent is up 22%
Groceries are up 21.6%

- Democrats and Kamala Harris are proud of this

[Ef-man]

CEOs do not like the felon because the federal debt increased 100% under his administration

[ducks]

Joe Kernen absolutely destroyed Elizabeth Warren for calling for price controls.

This is how the media, on both sides, should be pushing against moronic, economically illiterate ideas that have been tried and failed countless times throughout history.


https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1826984630492303495

[baseline bum]

Joe Kernen absolutely destroyed Elizabeth Warren for calling for price controls.

This is how the media, on both sides, should be pushing against moronic, economically illiterate ideas that have been tried and failed countless times throughout history.


https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1826984630492303495

Nothing more moronic and economically illiterate than Trump's trickle down economics.

[pgardn]

Local level my ass, all politics is national now.

Nope. Backward thinking. Where can you make an impact?

I want an educated public.
First place to start is go to the meetings school district level and stop the book banning.
Basics. Get proper board members on school districts. There are so many of these places, the bottom of the pyramid.
If we ALL did that, it would be heard loud and clear. The crazy red team members do it.

[baseline bum]

Nope. Backward thinking. Where can you make an impact?

I want an educated public.
First place to start is go to the meetings school district level and stop the book banning.
Basics. Get proper board members on school districts. There are so many of these places, the bottom of the pyramid.
If we ALL did that, it would be heard loud and clear. The crazy red team members do it.

The book bannings and all that are because all politics is national and the right is trying to be Trump all the way down.

[CosmicCowboy]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

[SnakeBoy]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

You have to vote for it to find out

Honestly, it's more entertaining to hear libs grapple with the reality that political parties DGAF about them. It appears peegarden knows how to change that and I'm looking forward to hearing more about it.

[ChumpDumper]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

it's your thread. 8 pages in and you can't explain what policy you said Harris actually proposed. I asked you a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around.

[baseline bum]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

ROFL don't prosecute a criminal conspiracy because muh shareholders. ROFL middle of the road conservatism.

[Blake]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

I guess you gave yourself your reason to vote for Trump then

[spurraider21]

So 8 pages in and none of you believers wants to explain how grocery store price controls could work? It was a pretty simple question. I guess insults are easier to throw around

i dont think it would, and unless we see a specific policy outline on it, im not convinced its anything more than a suggestion that they will be more aggressive with anti-trust litigation