The Harris Teleprompter Is Economically Illiterate

At some point during the past two weeks, the Harris presidential campaign finally realized that the Vice President would be forced to address the most important issue of the election.  Consequently, they cobbled together a speech and shoved Harris in front of the cameras last Friday so the voters could watch her read what her teleprompter plans to do about the economy and inflation. And Harris said what it told her to say: “I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food.” Nor did she correct herself. She simply followed the teleprompter’s instructions to pause while her audience clapped like so many trained seals, then she continued to read her lines.

If this point seems frivolous, consider what it confirms about Harris’ grasp of the issues and her command of standard English. She has uttered so much gibberish since 2020 that it is quite plausible that she read a typo on the teleprompter without realizing that “gauging” and “gouging” have different definitions. This, in turn, suggests that she has no idea that a ban on price gouging enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is simply the latest iteration of the government price controls that have failed every time they have been used to control inflation. Kevin Hassett, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Trump administration, explains the implications and origin of this plan on Fox Business: