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Harris Endorses Renter Protections, Ending Investor Breaks
Ending investor "breaks" (aka incentives) and "increasing supply of goods / housing developments" at the same time?
Price controls? Seriously?
It's the same with "price gouging" - how is that going to be defined and implemented and "monitored"? "This product is cheaper in a nearby supermarket, therefore you are price-gouging"?
It's the same page from failed "fighting shrinkflation" and "Bidenomics" that already have turned people off. She has not been tainted by this yet - let's not start now (see drudge.com - Harris Becomes Betting Favorite in Presidential Election Odds After Swing State Barnstorm")
The idea may appeal to some economically illiterate who think that things are done better and cheaper when profit motive is removed and government is "doing things" but it doesn't stand up to economic scrutiny and historic reality. Did she inherit the same idiotic economic advisors that came up with "Bidenomics"?
Price controls through the ages haven't worked, not for lack of trying :
www.investopedia.com - Price Controls / Investopedia (simple)
www.econlib.org - Price Controls / Econlib (comprehensive)
There is a huge difference between Economics and Political Economy - politicians twisting economics to "prove" their policies "work" - which is what we keep seeing and reading in general non-financial media, from both sides.
en.wikipedia.org - Economics
en.wikipedia.org economy - Political economy
There was already a negative reaction even from left-of-center and even "progressive" talking heads on CNN and elsewhere in the media.
Just a sample of reaction, from Washington Post:
www.washingtonpost.com - When your opponent calls you 'communist,' maybe don't propose price controls? It's hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris's price-gouging proposal is - WaPo, August 15, 2024, by Catherine Rampell (formerly of NYT)
It's still Kamala's election to lose at this point. She's going to blow it if she doesn't move away as fast as she can from this "economic plan" that even most left-wing economists can't endorse and won't defend (and maybe ditch her "political economics" advisors) - hopefully before convention.
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