Well it’s hardly a surprise that writers at outlets like RedState aren’t thrilled with Kamala Harris’ Soviet-style economic proposals, but it is startling to see even far-left outlets criticizing the vice president and Democrat presidential nominee because usually she can do no wrong in their eyes.
As my colleague Nick Arama wrote, even a Washington Post columnist trashed her ideas in a Thursday op-ed titled (beautifully, I must say), “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?”
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:
One of the anchors asked Rampell, why are you skeptical of the price-gouging proposal? She had many reasons, starting with the fact that it’s almost impossible to define:
…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.
Price gouging is only feasible if one company makes that product. This is why competitive capitalism beats state-owned communism all day long!