Washington Post columnist says Harris' price gouging ban plays into Trump labeling her 'communist'

A Washington Post columnist slammed Vice President Kamala Harris' proposal to ban price gouging for food and grocery items.

"When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?" reads the headline of the opinion piece Catherine Rampell wrote for The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. 

"What are these 'clear rules of the road' or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes 'excessive'? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification," she wrote.

Rampell also wrote on Thursday that it's "hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is."

She described it as a "sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food."

She added that "supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels" under Harris' proposal.

"Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk," Rampell wrote.