(08-15-2024, 09:52 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(08-15-2024, 08:49 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Here is an example of why I cannot commit to Harris.  Today, she is proposing an anti-price-gouging law.  Now, anyone who believes in free markets knows that there is nothing wrong with charging absolutely as much as you can for a product or service.  That's the way the system is supposed to work.   Profits produce jobs, profits bring competition, profits are the life blood of a healthy economy.  We should tax profits, yes, but we should never tell people they cannot charge as much as they can for their product or service.  

If I have a hundred thirsty people in front of me, and I have 25 bottles of water, I should charge as much as I can get for that water, because I will take that money and buy more water, and someone else will see what I am doing and try to do the same thing.  That's the way a healthy economy works.  

I cannot get on board with the idea that the government should decide when a company is charging too much for their product.

So, you are ok with the $69 hotel in Ocala charging $369/night during a hurricane evacuation?

So, I assume you are also ok if all the gas stations along I95 charge $20/gallon for gas during an evacuation.

Can't wait to see the Publix prices this summer when a hurricane is on the way .... perhaps $100 per case will be fitting.

Definitely a good way to weed out the poor people and enable the rich to survive national disasters.

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(08-15-2024, 08:57 AM)WingerDinger Wrote: The Taliban is just loving all those really expensive toys left behind by Biden/Harris..

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1...BAPVg&s=19

Dumb move to pull out the US troops in the 1st place.  Wonder who made that idiotic deal with the Taliban.

Trump's surrender to the Taliban was pretty much equivalent to the Japan's Emperor Hirohito surrender in WWII 

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...-collapse/

Marty's point is only correct if we have time to wait for new suppliers to enter the market.
If Marty sells water at the street corner every day, and we feel like his everyday price is predatory, we should just make sure there's a chance for someone new to start selling water at a lower price across the street tomorrow.

But a hurricane evacuation isn't like that, obviously.  The evacuation will be over tomorrow.

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