This mistake by Kamala Harris won’t be missed. It will be her downfall.
And now a George W. Bush official has hit Kamala Harris with a reality check that she’s in big trouble.
If a brief history of American politics tells you anything, it’s that anything that smells of communism does not sit well with the broader American voting base. It’s hard to get by with even a hint of communism on your trail, largely because Americans are well-educated about the horrors of what communism brings. There’s been dozens and dozens of nation-states that have tried out different forms of communism, but the result is always the same, which is food shortages and mass starvation.
So when Kamala Harris announced that she was going to be supporting so-called “price gouging controls,” it was immediately met with sharp criticism from all over the nation. Even her allies in the corporate media had to question the strategy of promoting a policy that is seemingly a hop and a skip away from outright socialism and communism.
The reality is that severe government involvement in a free market ends in disaster, especially in a prime case study like central governments capping or fixing prices of goods and services. Kamala Harris and her allies are trying to sell it as “helping out” the little guy by putting caps on market goods, but it will end in shortages and end up being a total disaster.
Former Admin Official For George W. Bush Puts Kamala Harris On Blast For Insane Economic Policies
This week, a former George W. Bush administration official, Karl Rove, took the opportunity in a Fox News appearance to call out how truly shortsighted and idiotic these economic proposals are from the Harris campaign. He called them a “wonderful opportunity” for Donald Trump to hit her hard on the campaign trail.
He also pointed out the fact that Harris’s plan to increase the corporate tax rate will end up hurting the jobs market, which only hurts Americans, not the corporations. Corporations will want their profit margins to remain the same, they simply won’t just take a corporate tax rate hit and do nothing about it. Employees will be laid off.
“It makes us uncompetitive, talk about creating jobs, let’s make it more difficult for American businesses to compete with people around the world who tax their corporations at zero, 15, 20, 25%. Let’s raise our tax rates higher,” Mr. Rove said criticizing the Harris proposal to increase the corporate tax rate.
“I mean, the great thing about the past couple of days is that economic speech by the vice president was an utter unmitigated disaster,” he added before putting her “price controls” policy in view.
“Price controls, I mean, when you lose the editorial board of The Washington Post as a Democrat, who says it is populist gimmickry, you’re in trouble, and this would have been a wonderful opportunity for Trump,” the George W. Bush official added in the Fox News interview.
It’s ironic that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are trying to sell themselves as candidates who want government out of the lives of Americans, but they are now literally promoting a new level of government control over the market that has scarcely been seen before in history.
Rove was referring to the Washington Post editor, Catherine Rampell, who shared in an op-ed that the new economic policies from Harris and company are so bad that it’s “hard to exaggerate” how bad they truly are. She lamented the idea of federal price controls “across every industry”, as suggested by Harris and her allies.
“It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is,” Rampell said in her op-ed last week. “It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would,” she went on to say.
Again, as Karl Rove notes, Catherine Rampell is a rusted on Democrat. A rusted on Democrat in the media, especially from an outlet like The Washington Post, telling you that your economic policies are crazy simply means your economic policies are crazy.
Kamala Harris has been enjoying a boom in the national polls when compared to how Joe Biden was faring against Donald Trump. Her problem now is that she may have taken all the air out of her campaign by positioning herself as sympathetic to socialist and communist ideas.
To be clear, Kamala Harris herself may not be a communist. Truly, she’s a political shapeshifter who will do and say whatever the Democrat machine wants from her. That’s been evident since the beginning of her political career.
Nevertheless, cozying up to these radical positions smells of socialism and communism, and Americans simply may not put up with it when it comes time to vote in November.
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