Charlie Kirk: Kamala Harris “wants to implement totalitarian communist price controls”
Kirk: “You will enter into the Soviet grocery store quickly if Kamala Harris gets her communist way of promising you price controls on your groceries”
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Citation From the August 15, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): And Kamala Harris, she wants to take us to the Soviet grocery stores. Continue to play cut 119. Kamala Harris is hearing the concerns of the American people. Her pollsters say, you gotta do something about this grocery problem, this price problem. So Kamala Harris is going full Soviet. Kamala Harris, rejecting the lesson from Boris Yeltsin when he was marveling about the abundance in our grocery stores, she wants to implement totalitarian communist price controls. From the Washington Post, quote, Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil a proposed ban on price gouging. Now, Kamala's narrative is that inflation isn't real. Grocery stores are just too greedy, charging extra money for no reason. This is ridiculous. If any of you know how grocery store margins work, they are the thinnest margins of any store — any — let's just say market out there. The Democrats are trying to say, well, corporations are greedy, and they're just price gouging. We know why prices are going up. When you have more dollars in the system than goods and services, prices go up. Inflation is the most proven way to crush an economy in a country. Government overspending is the reason why you get inflation. And Kamala Harris was the tie breaking vote on trillions of dollars of unnecessary government overspending that flooded the zone with dollar bills and has raised your grocery prices.
So now she's saying we are going to do price controls. This is terrifying. If she were to win, she would then be at war against one of the most firmly settled rules of economics. Literally 1,700 years ago, the Roman emperor Diocletian tried to stop inflation with an edict on prices, and it failed. During the French Revolution, the revolutionary government passed the law of the maximum capping prices on food. It failed. Instead, what did it lead to? Famine. If you come in with price controls, you are going to have food shortages.
Kamala Harris has been saying time and time again, it's time for us to do more from the federal government. The Washington Post comes out and reports that she wants to come in with federal price controls on your groceries. Same reason why rent control doesn't work in New York, San Francisco, and DC. They don't have lower rent. They have the highest rent in the country. And constant housing shortfalls. And then a small handful of people get to have apartments way below the market rate. But here's the problem is that politically, this could work. Economics is not the public's strong suit. It sounds good. You have price controls. You will enter into the Soviet grocery store quickly if Kamala Harris gets her communist way of promising you price controls on your groceries. The solution is lower energy costs, cut government overspending, and grow the economy, not take a page from the Soviets.