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If you ever wanted evidence of how morally fucked up Republicanism is (note: not just Red Hatism, *Republicanism*), look no further than this fucked up article from the movement conservative juggernaut, the National Review

Consider that the next time you hear a politician complaining about “price gouging” during a crisis, a dopey complaint for which both Left and Right have a weakness. Price gouging is treated as moral abomination and, at times, as a legal offense. You know what price-gouging is? A public service. Prices are how we ration scarce goods, and the pain associated with paying unusually high prices is how we learn not to put off laying in supplies until after the disaster has already happened. The guy with supplies to sell has, either through luck or foresight, managed to put himself in possession of what you need — and you did not. You don’t have to thank him, but you do have to pay his price. The profit he makes encourages him to keep planning for the future. If that hurts — it should. Maybe you’ll learn to do better next time. But the alternative to paying the higher prices isn’t paying a lower price — it is having no gasoline or water or toilet paper at all, at any price. You can try to regulate away that reality; ask the Venezuelans how that’s going for them.

In other words if a hurricane or a tornado rolls up your house and you're in desperate need of food water or gas, you have a moral obligation to bend over and take it, because you should have been hoarding that shit in your indestructible underground bunker all along. And anyone who tries to legislate price gouging is Hugo Chavez trying to turn America into Venezuela. (Funny how often they play that card)

Fuck this Littlefinger bullshit and fuck conservatism.


http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451336/irma-harvey-lesson-price-gouging-public-service