price gouging
noun
: charging customers too much money
The company has been accused of price gouging.
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Harris, meanwhile, also has claimed credit for managing the economy while also being short on specifics — outside of broadly promising to stop price gouging on groceries, building more affordable housing and cutting taxes for the middle class.
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Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024
Harris has lost momentum with progressive and working class voters, downplaying plans to ban price gouging, breaking up monopolies and other economic populist messaging that gets to the heart of food system change.
—Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
These include a $25,000 tax credit and other incentives for first-time homebuyers, banning price gouging on food and groceries, expanding a tax break for creating a small business, lowering health care costs and taxing long-term capital gains at 28% for wealthy Americans.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
Last Wednesday, for example, in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Harris condemned price gouging, but quickly clarified that only a handful of corporations actually engage in it.
—Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
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Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024
Harris has lost momentum with progressive and working class voters, downplaying plans to ban price gouging, breaking up monopolies and other economic populist messaging that gets to the heart of food system change.
—Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
These include a $25,000 tax credit and other incentives for first-time homebuyers, banning price gouging on food and groceries, expanding a tax break for creating a small business, lowering health care costs and taxing long-term capital gains at 28% for wealthy Americans.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
Last Wednesday, for example, in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Harris condemned price gouging, but quickly clarified that only a handful of corporations actually engage in it.
—Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
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