CNN’s Phillip: Harris’ ‘Price Gouging’ Plan ‘Sounds Kind of Like’ ‘Just a Ploy’

PHILLIP: “Marc, here’s what we can say about what the polls say. The CNN’s poll of polls, we try to take the best polls, only the best polls here at CNN, it’s basically a statistical tie between the two of them. However, that’s better than where Joe Biden was a few months ago. So, the race has kind of evened up. But here’s one thing. I mean, one of the things that we learned about her policy that she’s going to roll out is a ban — support for a ban on price gouging. Now, I think reasonable people would ask, what does that mean? What does that really mean? And how is the government going to be involved in it? Here’s Noah Rothman in the National Review, he describes this policy as, ‘a rank pander to the economically illiterate. And despite the presence of many who fit that description in Congress, they understand that allowing the executive Branch to functionally set prices is a brain-dead idea that would only hurt consumers in the long run.’ I mean, is this just a ploy? Because it sounds kind of like it.”
DYSON: “Well, look, you know, if you like it, it’s called good policy. If you don’t like it, you call it pandering.”
PHILLIP: “But is it really policy? I mean, price gouging?”