[ConservativeMind]

Hey, “Unhinged,” you are apparently incapable of answering the questions I’ve posed to you:

1. How is government not impinging on the above when enforcing anti-gouging laws? Whose “liberty” and “Happiness” should be punished to make you happy between the gas station owner who needs to buy expensive gas and the consumer who wants it cheap?

2. You say:

“Government is there to keep powerful interests from being tyrannical. “

Then you say:

“Price gouging profiteering in vital commodities (and the inherent trust that brings it, even if unstated) is tyrannical.”

Where on earth do you get that definition of government or that idea on “price gouging”? How can you have tyrannical control of commodities, unless you are a government?

Are you incapable of answering simple questions of logic?

[unspun]

I seem to have touched a nerve, to get all this ad hominem from you, "Conservative"Mind.

Your questions are ludicrously easy to answer. Have you ever heard the term "corner the market?" Or, "company store?" Have you heard of H.L. Hunt, for one example? Have you heard what George Soros did with the UK Pound? Do you know about AT&T? John D. Rockefeller?

Do you know what a cartel is?

Don't bother to answer though. I'm through with you.