Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
Democratic nominee to draw contrast with Trump on tax and tariffs when she lays out details on Friday, aides say
Kamala Harris will announce plans to tackle high grocery costs by targeting corporations in the food and grocery industry, as she previews her economic agenda ahead of the November election.
She will also tackle prescription drug and housing costs, drawing a contrast with Trump on tariffs and taxes, according to a Harris campaign statement.
Harris is expected to lay out some details of her economic plan in a speech in North Carolina on Friday.
“Same values, different vision,” said one aide, describing how Harris’s economic agenda will compare with that of Joe Biden, who stepped aside as the Democratic presidential candidate last month.
Having a strong and active FTC working to break apart (almost) monopolistic grocery store chains would be a good start.
Even threatening them with that would be a tiny step in the right direction.
I live in a large enough city to have choices and everyone is price gouging.
So, I don't see how this would really help much tbh.
and having a strong and active FTC working to enforce price gouging laws would really help too.
That's true. My point wasn't a strong ftc is bad but that near monopolies aren't the issue. There's collusion happening and breaking up monopolies isn't going to fix that.
You probably don’t remember the big fight over seat belts, but it was a thing. As a virtual hologram of a 1970’s Emergency Room doctor, I can tell you. The government mandating seat belts saved much more than lives. It saved trauma, years lost, careers, money - so much more.
But at the time people were all like, “What are they gonna do - force me to wear a seat belt? In my own car? How is that gonna help?”
It’s like that sometimes.
Same for air bags. They were going to make cars unaffordable. Same for drunk driving, "What? I can't have a beer or two on the way home?!" (Actually, you can have a beer or two, you can't be impaired.)
Remember drinking and driving? That was a whole thing too.
Geez so that's why that cop was such a dick.
I'm for preventing monopolies and breaking them up.
My point wasn't that that's a bad thing. But that this is more of an oligopoly situation rather than a monopoly.
My town has Walmart, Kroger, Target, and a Co-OP within five minutes of my house. They're all gouging prices and have been since the pandemic.
This isn't a situation where breaking up monopolies is the cure. Though preventing the Kroger/Albertsons merger will certainly keep things from getting worse.
Government can help a lot of the time, was my only aside there. But yes oligopoly busting would also be helpful.
Odd, but I have the opposite experience. Small hick town and I'm loaded with choices, most of which are cheap.