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The gouging is there to motivate people to show up with much needed supplies. If gouging is banned, there won't be supplies available.


Exactly. Price controls result in famines and shortages.

Allow gouging, and the gouger will soon have competition to drive the price down. Very quickly, the price will drop to a reasonable level. Conversely, if you price control, there is no incentive to provide the good or service in the first place, and shortages ensue.

Government price control regulations distort markets in a dangerous way.


That's what the government is for, to bring in those supplies.


The only reason the gougers exist is because the government didn't bring in the supplies.




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