"The issue I hear about the most is the cost of living," Good lander said. "There are a lot of reasons ..
. for why people are feeling pain, but one clear reason that people are feeling pain and prices are higher, is big corporations are jacking up prices for people all across our economy," Goodlander said. She's hardly alone.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is blaming higher grocery prices on "good old-fashioned corporate price gouging." And at DCJournal.
com , California Democrat and likely future POTUS candidate Rep. Ro Khanna writes about "potential industry collusion" driving up oil and gasoline prices. In New Hampshire, Goodlander touted her work as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Biden Department of Justice's antitrust division.
And she specifically referenced her work taking on Big Egg. "The price of eggs was less than $2 a dozen just a few years ago. Now it's almost $5 for a dozen eggs.
So, why is this happening? What I saw is, across our economy, there is a consolidation that's happened and big corporations have power like they've never had before to fix the price of goods and services," Goodlander said. "So, at the Justice Department we took on egg producers who created a monopoly to fix the price of eggs, to jack up the price of eggs for people across the Granite State and across our country," Goodlander said, adding: "That's the fight I want to take to Congress." The charge that big corporations are price gouging isn't new.
Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden all.
