Former President Donald Trump is attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan for a federal ban on price gouging by grocery stores and food suppliers as “Soviet-style” controls.

But Republican state officials across the country have embraced the idea of capping excessive prices for years.

GOP state attorneys general, as well as many of their Democratic counterparts, have moved to stop companies from charging what they view as exorbitant increases in the cost of some goods in certain circumstances.

In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued a large egg supplier for raising prices by about 300 percent at the height of the pandemic lockdowns in 2020.

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    4 months ago

    Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies is losing his battle with dementia. He’s always been dumb as fuck, but now the dementia is really tightening its grip. It’s sad, he should just drop out.