WASHINGTON – In a new op-ed for The Daily Caller, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown highlighted three ways that the Biden-Harris administration’s punitive, anti-business, anti-competitive, anti-innovation antitrust agenda has made Americans’ lives more expensive.
Brown, a former U.S. Senator and Ambassador, begins by criticizing FTC Chair Lina Khan’s misguided and baseless vendetta against Amazon, which culminated with a recent lawsuit to break up Amazon Prime: “Like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, the FTC’s vendetta against the online retailer knows no limits. In 2017, Khan became a progressive star with her Yale Law Journal dissertation titled ‘Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.’ In the piece, Khan takes aim at the company for keeping prices too low, a principle she has at times disavowed in pursuit of her political agenda.”
Brown continues: “Amazon has also been a lifeline for consumers. Nearly nine-in-ten planned to take advantage of the deep discounts of Amazon Prime Day for their back-to-school needs, according to a poll from JLL. Two-thirds (66%) believe that breaking up large technology companies will result in higher prices for consumers.”
Brown warns readers of the effects of the FTC’s bid to stop the merger between Kroger and Albertsons grocery stores in an environment of rapidly rising grocery prices: “Khan’s FTC launched a high-profile lawsuit to stop a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons, which was a free-market attempt to increase competition and better position the stores for success against the big companies like Walmart, the nation’s largest grocery with more than a fifth of the market.”
The piece concludes by highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s obsession with forcing electric vehicles on consumers who simply don’t want them: “Meanwhile, consumer demand for electric vehicle mandates continues to wane. A Pew Research Center survey from June showed that only about 3 in 10 Americans would consider purchasing an electric vehicle, down 9 percentage points in the past year. Ford made waves recently for dialing back their EV production.”
Read the whole piece on The Daily Caller’s website here.
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