[Cosmo]

New Yorkers have been getting gouged for years. They should be used it by now.

[Maceman]

Price gouging needs to happen and run its course. It’s the fastest way to get goods where they are needed.

Price controls (i.e. anti-price gouging laws) will only create more shortages and lengthen the period of suffering.

Ignorance is so sad. It’s also deadly.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[albie]

In Florida they arrested people who wanted to sell bottled water because of price gouging. They didn’t get any water.

[dancusa]

The price of doing business if your a bent over sheeple in a nanny state.

[Red in Blue PA]

After the Japan nuclear accident, people in Kansas were hoarding Potassium iodide yet lived nowhere near a nuclear plant.

High prices are the only way to see that goods get to the people who need them. One will only pay a high price if one REALLY needs it.

High prices serve a purpose in disasters.

[ctdonath2]

It’s not price gouging.
It’s prices reflecting current value.

[count-your-change]

“Need a blanket, grandma? Need a light? $300!”

“But I don’t have $300.”

“Freeze in the dark, old woman!”