I AGREE, instead Kamala should do what Trump did and give us all multiple stimulus checks. Like how about every month. We can call it “Universal Basic Income.”
American Basic Income. Don’t make it and all weird and European sounding/s
Eagle Bucks!
Veteran approved Freedom Bucks!
The Birbs of War!
I genuinely wish we lived in the world they fear so much
Same
You know how you end up with communism? You make it so nobody can afford their fucking groceries.
Wait… wasn’t he just giving a “press conference” about how grocery prices have gone up? If not price controls, what will hinder price gouging?
Only he can do it. With big numbers, the best. I mean low
He will simply tell the companies they have to lower the prices, and they will say “no way” and he will say “way”.
Problem solved.
Party on @Coelacanth
I mean, we’re looking
Down on Wayne’s basement. Only
That’s not Wayne’s basement.
Only by giving massive amounts of no-strings-attached government money to Smithfield and ConAgra while lightly scolding them about shrinkflation can we address high grocery costs!
Weren’t you paying attention? He’s not going to use price controls, he’s going to use container size controls.
It can’t be communist if it’s big!
the shrinkflation shall continue until his tiny hands can wrap themselves around a can of diet coke.
Well, we’re still waiting for the details on that “amazing” healthcare plan him and his team lied about having when they tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act, so I’m sure it’s just around the corner!
Did he actually say that? I just saw the dumbass holding up two sizes of tic tacs and idiotically proclaiming “tHiS iS iNfLaTioN”.
Tax cuts for the elite. It will trickle down to cheaper groceries. Read the art of the deal already.
More tax reliefs for rich people.
We need to De-Woke the agricultural sector. There are too many regulations. Not enough people can keep a cow in their back yard and sell milk to the neighbors.
Retvrn to Tradition!
backyard chickens in cities.
Of course going vegan could also lower prices.
Sure. But then people will accuse us of being insufferably annoying for knowing the ingredients to a good curry.
Just… not anywhere close to Trump-owned real estate.
Kamala’s plan is some sort of vague “stop price gouging,” but Trumps plan is even vaguer. His plan was to hold a press conference next to some sausages and say that his administration would lower prices. He gave even fewer specifics.
His actual plans are project 2025.
He has no actual plans beyond “stay out of prison by going to the White House.”
Project 2025 is the plan of all the people he’s going to appoint if he gets in.
Only words left in the conservative vocabulary: “Socialist” and “communist”
Surely linking affordable groceries to communism will make affordable groceries less popular rather than communism more popular.
Yes, if cheaper groceries are communist, then I’m ready for my hammer and sickle.
then I’m ready
Then WE’RE ready, comrade.
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation.
A better world’s in birth.
Hell that was cool. Thunder struck outside as I read those lines.
The reason publicly traded companies continually raise prices is the pressure from Wall Street to continually make more money than you did last month, last quarter, last year.
Say you sell 1,000,000 hamburgers and make a 20% profit on it.
Unless you make more money next year, selling that same 1,000,000 hamburgers, Wall Street is going to punish you. They don’t care that you’re profitable.
You either sell more burgers or raise prices.
Yeah. They treat profit like a necessary business expense or a cost, and balance their budgets around it. Which perverts a fundamental of economics.
I’m starting to think the stock market is just a really awful bank that is sometimes also a ponzi scheme.
The stock market IS a ponzi scheme, and the embodiment or everything that’s wrong with capitalism. It encourages greed and drives enshittification. It’s a system by the wealthy, for the wealthy (like 90% of stock is owned by the richest 10%, and most of that is owned by the top 0.1%). Expectations of infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is insane.
Most of the human population would prefer (and benefit from) less greed, less enshitification, cheaper housing, cheaper groceries, cheaper products — than the possibility to own a share of evilcorp.
Or lower content, or use cheaper content, or fire people and make the people staying work 10% more for the same salary, … every year.
Thank Jack Welch and Milton Friedman
A while back, Exxon set a record for any company in a quarter and everyone was going “Wooo!” and I was like “Well, gas prices are going up then… Think about next quarter and this quarter next year…”
It is because enough people don’t bother to price shop.
They have to turn inventory or they will quickly go broke.
If you switch to the cheaper option they have to react. If you shrug and pay, they win.
Anyone that listens to him is a fucking moron.
Or complicit in the grift to steal more money from working americans. Or a fucking moron!
Did he confuse the word consumerist ?
Oh come on. The rhetoric is insane . I live in Florida and price gouging during a hurricane or other emergency is absolutely illegal here, there’s a hotline to call if you see it. There is a difference between raising prices because your costs have gone up, and price gouging. If the invisible hand of the market isn’t working (big surprise, ha) that’s what laws are for.
Is Trump the “invisible hand of the marker”? LOL
You all heard it hear first, he wants to be the bread man for the Florida region.
I recall this recent quote from him at Bedminster when asked about his campaign strategy: “All I have to do is define her as a Communist or a Socialist or say she will destroy America.”
Isn’t he the same guy who’s been promising to cut energy costs “in half or less than half,” eh?
All this looks like a conflict on a stereotypical Middle-Eastern market.
Two sides with the emotion of “munnat” in long words and exaggerated comparisons talking stuff about each other that doesn’t make sense, but nobody remembers it should even make sense.
Republicans do more of that, but funny for both.
It’s because elections are won on emotions and vibes, not “boring” policies, unfortunately.
Yes, but specific emotions and vibes that work or are used today are strange.
Politicians used to imitate that proverbial craftsman that is starving first half of the day, or that proverbial worker class man with one pair of jeans with holes in them and dust grown into his skin, or that proverbial farmer that looks 40 in his 20, but all these somehow gotten to the top to be politicians, or at least a gentleman with good intentions.
While now they play what I described.
