In what will be a surprise if readers buy what the mainstream media has been telling them, voters not only understand VP Kamala Harris’ economic policies, they prefer them.
“Kamala Harris’s economic policies proved far more popular than Donald Trump’s plans in a blind test of their proposals,” the Guardian reported from their exclusive bling testing poll.
Also of note, “Though Harris has received criticism for being ‘light on policy’, a majority of all voters in the poll suggested they understand her policies just fine. More than 60% of voters said they understood Harris policies on the economy.”
People from both sides of the aisle remain pessimistic about the economy, so the most popular proposal was a federal ban on the price-gouging of food and groceries, which is a Kamala Harris plan. “Nearly half (44%) of all those polled agreed that it would strengthen the economy.”
The top issue for those polled was the cost of living, and Harris’s price gouging proposal is meant to address that. “A majority of those polled (66%) indicated that the cost of living was one of their biggest economic concerns right now.”
Harris wants a federal ban on price gouging because grocery prices have surged 25% since 2020. The Guardian notes that some economists have criticized this plan.
However, 37 states actually have bans on price gouging already, and they don’t operate like “Soviet-style” price setting. Erin Witte, director of the consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America told NBC the difference is “price-gouging laws, by contrast, target corporate conduct rather than mandating concrete pricing levels: ‘Price-gouging laws require the enforcing agency to look at several factors and decide whether the conduct was unlawful.’”
Harris’ plan, in other words, is about holding corporations accountable for price gouging. This is an example of what the government is meant to do — to regulate big business so that it doesn’t inflict too much harm on people while making a profit.
This poll shows that when voters are just shown actual policies, they prefer Kamala Harris’ four out of five times. The one policy of Trump’s they like is not taxing Social Security. This plan sounds good on the surface, but again the media doesn’t demand the hows from Trump for some reason.