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  • DMBFFF@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump brands Kamala Harris’s lower grocery prices policy ‘communist’
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    2 years ago

    Price controls could lead to shortages, which is reportedly common in Communist countries—which I’ll concede to Trump;

    however, Trump is hardly better with his flogging crap, the encouragement of stupidity, the anti-science, and the tariffs—why do Trump supporters—presumably a vast majority being consumers—support tariffs, quotas, and seem indifferent to IP (“intellectual property”) trolls and their lobbies? Why do they oppose abortion (and perhaps contraceptives) when fewer children means less need to purchase stuff?

    Perhaps price controls for basics are needed, but this is not the ideal; and if you support price controls because you favour socialism, then again, Trump is kinda right here.

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    note: if I was American, I would not vote for Trump or pretty well any Republican.