In 2019, Kamala Harris said she would be willing to confiscate patents
Video has resurfaced from late 2019 of Kamala Harris threatening to “snatch” corporate patents.
At the time the video was recorded, the Vice President was still in the presidential race. She was speaking at a campaign event in Muscatine, Iowa, on 22 November 2019.
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [i.e. the government] will take over,” Harris says in the clip.
“Yes, we can do that! The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”
🚨 WOW! Kamala Harris is literally threatening to unilaterally CONFISCATE citizens’ and businesses’ private property
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [the government] will take over. Yes we can do that!”
THIS IS WHAT LITERAL DICTATORS DO.
Comrade Kamala wants to turn… pic.twitter.com/fWOmXn4Teg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 17, 2024
It’s unclear exactly what the context of her statement was, but the implications were clear enough to viewers.
“THIS IS WHAT LITERAL DICTATORS DO. Comrade Kamala wants to turn America into a communist hellhole, and she’s OPEN about it. This should terrify EVERYONE!” tweeted Nick Sortor, who posted the clip.
“Kamala Harris’ threat to confiscate patents is a chilling glimpse into her radical agenda,” Tweeted another user. “The government taking over intellectual property is a direct assault on innovation and individual rights. Are we really ready to let bureaucrats dictate the future of our economy?”
Kamala Harris recently announced that she would introduced price controls to curb inflation, a proposal that has rattled many of her own supporters, including media outlets like The Washington Post.
“When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t introduce price controls,” was the headline of an opinion piece that ran on the Post’s website on Friday.
“It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is,” wrote Catherine Rampell.
“It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. 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.
“At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices.”
