82% of US Voters Believe Inflation Is Fueled by Corporations 'Jacking Up Prices'
82% of US Voters Believe Inflation Is Fueled by Corporations 'Jacking Up Prices'
New survey data shows that voters "want elected officials to challenge corporate greed to lower prices," said one advocate.
JAKE JOHNSON
March 12, 2022
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/12/82-us-voters-believe-inflation-fueled-corporations-jacking-prices
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On the heels of fresh data showing that the U.S. inflation rate jumped to a new 40-year high last month, a new survey found that more than 80% of American voters believe costs are rising in part because "big corporations are jacking up prices" while raking in record profits.
Released Friday by the advocacy group Fight Corporate Monopolies, the poll showed that 82% of registered U.S. voters blame big companies for at least some of the recent inflation spike and want elected officials to "take on powerful CEOs and rein in corporate greed to lower prices."
"Rising prices is the top economic issue for most voters, and they want elected officials to challenge corporate greed to lower prices," Helen Brosnan, executive director of Fight Corporate Monopolies, said in a statement. "Political leaders should directly address rising prices, release plans to combat corporate greed's role in driving prices higher, and put forth arguments that center CEOs and big corporations."
The new survey, based on a sample size of 1,000 respondents, comes as progressives in Congress continue spotlighting corporate price-gouging as a key culprit behind rising prices nationwide even as the White House abandons that narrative, despite data indicating it resonates with voters.
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I confess I didn't read the article I love common dreams, but when I read their articles, I read it knowing that the orientation is from my point of view. I never expect an objective analysis. Not saying they never offer objective analysis, but I'd have to spend more time fact checking their "statements of facts" or their polling results on just about everything. I was once an avid reader.
I don't now recall when I drifted away.. what exactly made me start questioning, but at some point a few years back I just never bothered reading their links any longer.
My intuition ion this story is pure speculation. I suspect they only polled a certain faction of our culture, and that faction would be the tribe we identify with and are populated with folks with a healthy degree of common sense, which the viewers of faux news et al do not possess. Obviously or they wouldn't be religiously tuned in to their ignorant enabling propaganda generating machines.
People are finally waking up.
Current Administration could help by going after corporate greed
