On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:54:22 -0700, "Vitaliy" said:
> Carl Denk wrote:
> > The whole issue here is, unscrupulous people taking advantage.
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Hi Carl,
Vitaliy doesn't believe that taking advantage of people is unscrupulous.
It's just business for him. Making money off other people's misery is OK
with him.

> Let's assume for a second that that disaster victims are normal people
> who=20
> aren't stupid. When the "price gouger" gets on the scene, these normal=20
> people have choices: they can buy the goods at inflated prices, get them=
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> from another source, or do without.
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> When "price gouging" is made illegal, effectively it means that one of
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> choices is eliminated. Are the victims now better off?

Actually, I'd say they were now twice victims.

Notice how he started with a fake news article to try to inject a
scenario that never took place, to try to drum up outrage against people
who believe that helping people in crisis shouldn't be a profit center?

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> Let's look at how Florida defines price gouging:
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Suddenly we're in Florida? You changed from one lie about something that
never happened in Mississippi to some other misquoted story in Florida?

Laws are in place for a variety of reasons, one of them is to keep order
during emergencies. There are plenty of safety reasons to keep guys from
selling stuff off the back of a truck during a disaster.

> The dynamics of price controls were well understood back in the
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> century, when Adam Smith argued against the corn laws that, while=20
> well-intentioned, created famines.

On a soap box again? You just don't know when to stop. If you love the
eighteenth century and growing corn so much, I'd like to see you try to
be a farmer. What a laugh.

Bob

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