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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It is the kickoff of the Democrat National Convention. And
it's already a blank show.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Shall we say?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The Palestinian lovers, which are the jew haters? And they'll
tell you that. They will tell you they hate the Jews.
They crashed the stage last night at the DNC welcome
party in Chicago. It didn't feel very welcoming. Grab your popcorn.
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It's going to be good. It's going to be good.
It is going to be good. A Prohamas Goon grabbed
the microphone and screen. You are funding a genocide. The
Harris Biden administration keeps sending money to Israel. Then the
audience pipes up chanting free Palestine. They escorted this woman
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off the stage. A clip of the moment was shared
by a group called Direct Action for Palestine with the
caption from the inside and Out, the DNC cannot party
while there is a genocide in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Welcome to Hell week.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There have been some threats made against the administration.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There have been.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Claims that there will be violence, in fact, using the
term war on the Democrats this week. They also have
an RV where they are giving away free abortions. I
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guess if it's dilation and cureitages be dncs at the DNC.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's not good. It's not good at all.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
New York Post with the headline free abortions and vasectoms
and an eighteen foot tall inflatable IUD called freda womb
as in freeda womb erected at DNC in Chicago, Free abortions,
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in visectomies and an eighteen foot tall inflatable IUD, which
of course they had to name it, and they called
jd Vance weird, and they called jd Vance weird. Meanwhile,
a CBS News you gov poll on the three most
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important issues to voters. On the economy, Trump leads fifty
six forty three. On inflation, Trump leads sixty one thirty eight.
On the US Mexico border, Trump leads seventy six twenty four.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
This, my friends, is.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Why the Democrats want you talking about abortion. The problem
is there are people on our side who will get
sucked into it. Focus on where you can win. The
Democrats are vulnerable on the economy, inflation, the border, and crime.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Focus on what matters. That's how we win.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Something's going on because some members of the media are occasionally,
almost accidentally, it's like a spasm criticizing Kamala Harris. Washington
Post economic columnist Katherine Ramble absolutely tearing apart Kamala Harris's
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push for price controls. I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
This is.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Very surprising, she says. Supply and demand would no longer
determine prices or profit levels. Correct far off Washington bureaucrats
would correct. The FTC Federal Trade Commission would be able
to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio, the acceptable price
it can charge for milk. At best, this would lead
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to shortages, black markets, and hoarding, among other distortions seen
previous times. Countries tried to limit the price growth by FIAT.
As Thomas' Sole famously taught us, you cannot control by
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government the cost of an item. You can only control
the price of an item when you declare, in order
to win an election, I will declare that bread will
cost a dollar a loaf. If the farmer can't make it,
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transport it, the grocer accept it and sell it for
less than a dollar such that they make a sufficient profit.
They simply won't do it. This destroys industry, and it's
been tried before. It's called socialism, it's called government control
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of the economy, and it's very popular because people say, yes,
I would like to pay less for items. But as
Ronald Reagan famously said during a debate with Jimmy Carter
in nineteen eighty, we don't have inflation because the people
are living too well. We have inflation because the government
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is living too well.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
This is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
An open embrace of socialism by a Democrat candidate, the
likes of which I don't ever remember seeing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Of course there was Bernie Sanders. Of course there was.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But Bernie Sanders didn't win the nomination. He didn't have
the nomination. Here is some audio of a speech Kamala
Harris was giving, and she's lamenting the high prices under
her administration. Someone took her audio no changes and slapped
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a tag on the end that said, I'm Donald Trump
and I approved this message.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
A loaf of bread cost fifty percent more today than
it did before the pandemic. Ground beef is up almost
fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I'm Donald Trump, and I approved this message.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Kamala Harris is traveling the country reading a list of
how bad things are just reading a list of how
bad things are, and the small audiences.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Go, that's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
How is she going to fix a problem she caused?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We'll explore some of her.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Campaign speeches through the course of the show today. At
one point she went off script, and as you might imagine,
it's not pretty.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
There is a growing body of.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Theory, based in part on some people around her, based
in part on some people who've protected her, based in
part of the people who worked for her, that she
is a raging alcoholic, that she is drunk a lot
of the time, and look out. I'm no expert on
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the matter, but it would sure make sense for some
of the things she says and does, and the way
she rambles, and the way she speaks, the way a
drunk person does without ever making a point, and the
way she awkwardly at the most odd times simply capitals plea.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Just keep an eye on that the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It was just over a month ago that our president
was shot in the head. Corey Comparatory was murdered with
his daughter holding his hand. Two other men seriously injured.
I read a review this weekend on the fact that
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so few details have emerged that would be part of
a basic investigation. Once Kimberly Cheetle resigned her work having
been done, well, technically, her work wasn't done because they
failed at the assassination. But once she resigned, people stopped
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looking into questions like why didn't we have a sniper
on that particular warehouse. Well, she said, because the roof's
grade was too steep. I want somebody to slide off
of there, except the shooter's dead body laid flat. It
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didn't slide. It wasn't steep. And then citizen journalism being
what it is today, they looked at the grade of
the warehouses where the Secret Service agents were, and they
were steeper than the grade of the warehouse the shooter
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was on. We still don't know his background, We still
don't know his supposed motivation, we don't know who trained him,
We don't know anything about him. If you actually cared
to teach people to reveal to people what we know
and how it happened, you would conduct yourself very differently.
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If you wanted people to believe the conspiracies that our
government did this, you would have done and everything exactly
the way they've done it, leaving you with nothing else
to think. You feel stupid if you believe the official narrative,
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because there's no way it's implausible, it cannot be true.
A comedian named Drew Dunn had a comedy bit because
we have to laugh. If we don't laugh, we'll go crazy.
He had a comedy bit about just this.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
All I do know is that if our government tried
to do an assassination attempt, that's kind of how it
would look.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, it was very inefficient.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
That was the DMV of assassination of child That's not good.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Had a very small budget.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
You could tell they wanted to do it with a
grassy knoll at a parade.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Were used to it. We can't swing that.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
We gotta do a tin roof and a town fair.
That's all we got.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Can't get any ex military people to take the shot.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Let's get the kid who came in last place on
his marksman team. But apparently high schools have marksmen teams.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I've never I never tried to do. That was just
one big government block of cheese. Like that's all I
love say.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
I was hoping Trump was gonna come out the same
day here still bleeding and do the press conference.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
They tried to shoot me. They tried to shoot me.
They were too slow, and I'm too fast. I dodged
the bullet.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
They did even share.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
I shot coming from so far away. It was like
the matrix. It was all in slow motion. Call me Neo,
I'm the chosen woman. They say it was a Republican.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
That's the say he was a Republican.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
This shot.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
But I'll tell you right now, he shoots like a liberal.
I'll tell you that he shoots like a liberal. Not straight,
so not strange.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They said it was a fake bullet. That's what they said.
It was a real bullet. We found the bullets.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Turns out the bullets they were made in China. That's
where they were made. They were little, teeny tiny Chinese bullets,
so small, so tiny.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I shot the guy bag. They cut the cameras.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
They didn't show you that it was me.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It was shot him.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I called out in my glock and I shot him
right the pace.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's what.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
It's crazy. We have to laugh or we'd go crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And that's part of their design, is for us to
go crazy. President Trump has taken on as an advisor
to his team. According to the New York Times, Toolsey
Gabbard to assist with debate prep. She's already taken part
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in a practice session with President Trump at mar A Lago.
The reasoning for that is that Toolsey Gabbard absolutely shredded
Kamala Harris in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Kamala Harris was thought to.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Be a strong candidate to win the Democrat nomination that
would eventually go almost by default to Joe Biden because
there weren't any better candidates. Pete buttergig is well, he's
Pete buttergig Amy Klobuchar's an angry woman. Elizabeth Warren is
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a fraud who claims to be an Indian but runs
around saying she supports black people.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
She's just weird. I think she's off putting to people.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Toolsey Gabbard was the strongest candidate, but of course they
don't choose the strongest candidates. This is Tulsey Gabbard in
twenty nineteen during the second Democrat debate, and you will see,
you will hear what she did to Kamala Harris. And
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I believe that President Trump brought her on to figure
out how to shred Kamala Harris with a knockout punch
in such a manner that really exposes the fact that
she's a dumb, dumb and a flip flopper, and people
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need to understand that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But this was what Toolsey Gabber did to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
I want to bring the conversation back to the broken
criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and
brown people all across this country.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
To day, Senator Harris.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Says she's proud of her record prosecutor and that she'll
be a prosecutor president. But I'm deeply concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite. But she put
over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana violations and
then laughed about it when she was asked if she
ever smoked marijuana.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
She blocked evidence.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man
from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use
them as cheap labor for the state of California. And
she fought to keep cash fail system in place that
impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Thank you, i'msswoman Senator Harris. Your response.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
As the elected Attorney general California, I did the work
of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state
of forty million people, which became a national model for
the work that needs to be done. And I am
proud of that work. And I am proud of making
a decision to not just give fancy speeches or be
in a legislative body and give speeches on a floor,
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but actually doing the work of being in the position
to use the power that I had to reform a
system that is badly in need of reform. That is
why we created initiatives that were about re entering former
offenders and getting them counselor. It is why, and because
I know that criminal justices who was so broken that
I am an advocate for what we need to do
to not only decriminalize, but legalize marijuana in the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I want to bring a Congressman Gabbard back in your responsible.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in
a position to make a difference and an impact in
these people's lives.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You did not.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
And worse yet, in the case of those who were
on debt throw innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from
being revealed that would have freed them until you were
forced to do so. There is no excuse for that.
And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You owe them an apology. You've got Michael Berry show.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I am constantly watching on YouTube videos of things that
are important to me, or I'll pick up a chapter
and read from something that's important. And one of them
that's usually Thomas Soul that's a big one. But one
of them is a book by Milton Friedman called Capitalism
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and Freedom. It's very important seminal work. And so here
is my challenge to you. You can get it free online.
I've posted to Facebook how to get it free, and
there are twelve chapters excluding the conclusion, and there are
twelve weeks before election day, so you could set a
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goal of a chapter a week. I've come to the conclusion.
There are two types of people, people who read voraciously
and people who do not read at all. And of
the people who do not read, they will have all
the reasons that some of them embrace it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I won't read. I go back school. If I want
to read, I look at my mail. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Okay, it is shortsighted to imagine that you have been
exposed to the greatest thoughts to ever rattle through the
brains of humanity based on the guide next to you
on the assembly line, in the carpool line, or who
lives across the clothes line. It is absurd to think
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that why you would not want to be exposed to
the greatest thoughts handed down throughout history. I don't know,
and I can't change that. But if you are a
person who does, you can go to my Facebook page
and there is a link where you can get the
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book free and commit to just one chapter per week.
If I can get somebody to start reading, to pick
up one book and start reading. When you finish that book,
you tend to look around. It's like one lazed potato
chip or one beer. You look around and go, hey,
I want another one of those, And before you know it,
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reading becomes a habit and the only people who make
fun of it are people who don't do it, because
once you start, once you start, it becomes something that
opens up a part of your mind that you realize
television news does not do, the newspaper does not do,
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and you start thinking on a level and it's like
it's like when you start working out and you were flabby,
all of a sudden you start feeling stronger, start standing taller.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You like the.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Way you feel, and there is something wonderful to that.
So that's posted to my Facebook page. You can see
it for yourself. Speaking of the Democrat Convention nineteen mentions
of Joe Biden's second term in the official DNC platform,
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Joe Biden's no longer the nominee nineteen mentions. Well, it
doesn't matter because none of the mentions have anything to
do with what.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
They're going to do anyway.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But at least that is the document for people desperately
searching for some justification why they're voting for the communist
And you'll notice this is usually the white liberals who
do this. They've decided they're voting Democrat no matter what,
doesn't matter who it is. You could replace Kamala, you
could put Bernie in there, you could put Elizabeth Warren,
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you can put Klobe Jar, you could put Buddy Gig,
it wouldn't matter. These are the people who never heard
of Tim Wallas, had no idea who he was, and
two weeks later tell us he's the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
He was a great coach. No he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
They won the state championship. There was a team that
won the state championship, but he wasn't the coach. Certainly
wasn't the head coach, which he has suggested. He was
an unpaid volunteer coach for the freshman team because he
had a criminal history and could not qualify to be
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on the payroll for the team. He could not be
an official coach. So no, he wasn't a coach. Kamala
Harris has unveiled her new economic plan, and boy, oh boy,
is it ever a doozy here it is. We've done
the heavy lifting for you, condensing it to one minute.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Our country has come a long way since President Biden
and I took office. A loaf of bread cost fifty
percent more today than it did before the pandemic. Ground
beef is up almost fifty percent. And I know what
home ownership means. It's more than a financial transaction. It's
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so much more than that. It's more than a house.
Home ownership and what that means. It's a symbol of
the pride that comes with hard work. It's financial security.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
It represents what you will be able to do for
your children, and sadly right now, it is out of
reach for far too many American families. There's a serious
housing shortage in many places.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
It's too difficult to build, and it's driving prices up.
So now, now, now is the time to chart a
new way forward.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
We have password to President Trump's people to run this
ad on a loop from now until election day.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
A local bread cost fifty percent more today than it
did before. The pandemic. Ground beef is up almost fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
This is how you win undecided voters. Those people are
hurting your personal life. It matters who's in the White House.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
A low of bread cost fifty percent more today than
did before. The pandemic. Ground beef is up almost fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
If you want to have a better quality of life, immediately,
you have got to get these communists out of office.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
A loaf of bread cost fifty percent more today than
it did before. The pandemic. Ground beef is up almost
fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You're not making more money, but you are having to
spend more money because of the communists do something about it.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
A loaf of bread cost fifty percent more today than
it did before the pandemic. Ground beef is up almost
fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You're listening to Michael Berns show.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So Kamala Harris has an economic plan. Somebody wrote her up,
a little communist plan. They're going to confiscate the patents
and the businesses or anybody that don't like, increase taxes
on businesses, because see, businesses are evil. So we'll take
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all their money and give it to you, our voters.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's been tried before.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And we'll put price controls because grocery stores and farmers
are evil and they're just trying to, as she said,
price gaid. So she was asked how she planned to
pay for this, for this grand scheme of hers, and
again you just use words and assume.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
They won't know what's going on. You knows, you're actually somebody.
All those policies plas Street down.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Can you explain how you're gonna pay for those? Can
you give us a sense of one of their policies
and one of them to be al pact?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Well, I mean you just look at it. In terms
of what we are trying to about, for example, around
church and the child tax Credit and extending the EITC
that it's at six thousand dollars for the first year
of relation of the child's life. The return on that investment,
in terms of what that will do and what it
will pay for, will be tremendous. We've seen it when
we did it the first year of our administration, reduced
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toob obviously by over fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So that's a lot of the work.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And then what we're doing in terms of the tax credits,
we know that there's a great return on investment. And
when we increase home ownership in America, what that means
in terms of increasing the tax base afta metric property
tax base, what that does to fund schools. Again, return
on investment. I think it's a mistake for any person
who talks about public policy to not critically evaluate how
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you measure.
Speaker 13 (27:44):
The return on investment.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
When you are strengthening neighborhood, strengthening communities and in particular
the economy of those communities, and investing in a broad
based economy, everybody benefits and it pays for its uf.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
None of that makes any sense. Return on investment. Well,
we're going to hug people death, We're going to compliment
them to death. We're going to tell a football team
that even if you don't win every game, you'll go undefeated.
Rainbows and butterflies. Rainbows and butterflies. That's not a return
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on investment. What is the investment. Maybe she's saying that
tax cuts will grow the economy, giving you increase revenue
from more economic activity and the taxes that are thrown
off from that, because that's what the Trump tax cuts did.
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Remember they call the tax cuts crumbs because they couldn't
say it was helping people. Six hundred dollars that's crumbs
to a working person in this country. The Treasury saw
record revenues after Trump cut taxes. How does that work
because spur economic activity. If she knows cutting taxes will
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grow the economy, then why does she support raising taxes.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
We've got to increase the corporate.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Tax, right.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
We also have to increase taxes for the top one percent,
and that part of that is going to be about
repealing that tax build that they just passed and also
looking at a state tax is it going to have.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
To go up?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Catherine Ramble is an economic and political contributor for CNN,
and she said something that the media doesn't normally say.
In fact, it's quite surprising that she would. She says,
We've seen people try this before, this government, setting the
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price of things while increasing the taxes, while increasing control
of businesses, and it did not end well.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Catherine, I hear I read your piece and I heard
you just mention it, the federal ban on price gouging
for groceries. You are skeptical of this, why well, first of.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
All, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It's like
that old line about pornography. I know it when I
see it, in the sense that what does it mean
to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin
that seems to be shorthand for a price or a
profit margin that bugs.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Me, that seems too high.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
So, you know, it's very hard to pin down what
this would actually mean. If you look at the legislation that,
as I mentioned, is already in the Senate, led by
Senator Senate Warren and Senator Bob Casey and a slew
of others. The particular way that this is written, which
is likely to be the template for any proposal that
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Harris would eventually embrace. Is especially bad in that it
just bans excessive prices, grossly excessive prices, grossly excessive profit margins,
and says that the Federal Trade Commission can use any
metric it deems appropriate to decide what that would would mean,
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which basically says like, it's not going to be markets.
It's not going to be supplying demand that's determining how
much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs.
It's going to be some bureaucrat in DC, which seems
like totally unworkable. First of all for the FDC to
be deciding like how much Kroger charges for eggs in Michigan,
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but it also.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Would be very bad for markets.
Speaker 14 (31:46):
We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of
other countries before Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, et cetera.
It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, you know,
plenty of uncertainty. And beyond that, the specific way this
bill is written might actually increase prices because of some
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of the other language in it, things like requiring companies
public companies to disclose in their quarterly reports their quarterly
earnings reports, how they're setting prices, which is a great
way to help them collude, which normally we don't want
them to do so anyway, you know, the devil's in
the details. I guess for that bill, but it's really
hard for me to imagine any form of legislation that
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preserves the spirit of what she's proposing. That would not
be you know, at best, do nothing, at worse, cause.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
A lot of harm.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Greg Guttfield to Fox News said price gouging is a
weak phrase directed at weaker minds. We won't get to
that quote till the next segment.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Hang with us.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
This is CNN Scott Jennings saying there's no price gouging,
this is inflation. The other thing that I picked up
on today was this whole notion that price gouging or
gauging as she called it, is what people are feeling.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That is a total canard.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
This is not true. This is made up because they're
trying to deflect attention from the actual inflation that has
caused everything in your life to get more expensive. So
they need the American people to believe something other than
the truth.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
There is no price gouging. Grocery stores.
Speaker 13 (33:22):
These things they operate on very slim profit margins. There
is no gouging, there is just inflation. So to go
out and say I'm going to get the federal government
involved in setting prices or capping prices, or interrupting the
flow of the free market economy, let me tell you something.
If you like redlines, product shortages, black markets, hoarding, if
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you want to recreate the happy economic conditions of the
walking dead, Kamala Harris has a plan for you. The
bottom line is, the Republicans are going to be all
over this. It's not smart, and it's a plan from
a ticket that has no private sector experience and no
interest whatsoever in taking responsibility for everything they have done
to plunge the working class of the United States of
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America into an economic crisis.