Fox News contributor Joe Concha criticizes Vice President Kamala Harris for ignoring reporters' questions following a press conference with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

When a politician promises to use government power to force "lower prices" and "transparency," you should expect the opposite outcome. Under the Biden-Harris administration, families have faced skyrocketing costs on everything from groceries to prescription drugs, yet Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed on the campaign trail that the best way to fix this is to insert even more federal control into every corner of our economy. Here's why these policies would be so devastating and lead to even higher costs for Americans.

While Harris has largely avoided the press and declined to publish policy plans on her website, she recently gave a speech outlining her economic priorities in three key areas: food, healthcare, and housing. An examination of her proposals shows that they would all be disasters.

Harris began her remarks by acknowledging that under her tenure as vice president, "a loaf of bread costs 50% more" and "ground beef is up almost 50%." She's right — and anyone who has been to the grocery store has seen similar price increases for eggs, cereal and many other staple foods.

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But instead of taking responsibility for the out-of-control government spending and failed policies that actually caused these increases, Harris instead proposed passing the "first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food." Under this "ban," bureaucrats in Washington would get to decide what constitutes gouging — or, in other words, what they think the price should be.

Vice President Kamala Harris's economic proposals would inject more big government into the........

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