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To: Orange1998
The cost is higher to get supplies to a disaster area.

Yes, but that's not the point. Large profits should be encouraged. There should be a huge financial incentive to load up a panel van in, say, Ohio, with all the things a hurricane victim might want to buy, and drive it down to the disaster area. Lots of people would be doing that right now, if they could charge the highest price people were willing to pay. Instead, their profit margins are limited to about what they would make if they sold the stuff in Ohio, so why go to the trouble? They're allowed to recoup their costs, but not allowed to make good money. That's not enough incentive to rush necessities to the area.

20 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:41 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
charge the highest price people

Oh yeah! Make money on someone else's misery! Yeah, right! I hope all who believe this will one day meet the same fate!

22 posted on 09/17/2004 8:46:08 AM PDT by beachn4fun ("Being American means being free. That's why they're proud." Tony Blair 7/17/03)
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