As it relates to price gouging, it is already illegal in 39 states and Washington DC., including RED states like: Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Montana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama.
So can one of the indignant republicans explain why it is ok in the red states but not at the federal level to protect all Americans? |
Why do people think more closely monitoring, and more aggressive antitrust enforcement on mergers between grocery chains is price fixing? Someone explain this to me. |
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That doesn’t explain why Biden allowed food production companies to price gouge consumers. Price gouging is an unfair or deceptive trade practices. Price increases are not always price gouging. Retailers can raise the price of their products as supply and demand change. The legal definition of price gouging is usually more specific to an emergency or a type of good or service. Most state laws relevant to price gouging consider whether the seller had a good reason to raise prices during the emergency. https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/price-gouging-laws-by-state.html This is a chart of state price gouging laws. I don’t see how anyone can define what is occurring in the United States regarding grocery costs, fuel costs, apartment rent and home buying costs, and general consumer goods and services prices increasing as “price gouging.” Every state already has price gouging laws on their books to protect consumers. Is each state’s AG supposed to sue every grocery store, food supplier, private home owners who put their house up for sale, every apartment/rental agency, basically every store or consumer facing business in their state? Every consumer good and service has increased in price. The AG will have to sue millions of people per state. |
like federal intervention on women's bodies? |
I do expect him to do better than Kamala on the economics front. |
Government won’t control prices. It will investigate price fixing, which is common among poultry, dairy, and many other agricultural and food processors and corporations. It’s not the farmers. It’s not the grocers. It’s the consolidation of food sector corporations. |
He will just do something short term that will promptly expire when the next president takes office creating the appearance of gop success to those who don’t pay attention. But it will have negative long term consequences. We’ve seen that routine before. |
lol.. you don't want any regulation but you hate that the big bog stores have killed small businesses. Are you serious? If it wasn't for regulations, big corporations would basically have a monopoly, including a monopoly on pricing, and kill small businesses completely. D@mn. Now, I know you're dumb. |
because he managed to bankrupt his casino businesses and commit fraud on his so called Trump U? |
So this whole thread and her proposal on price gouging is tougher penalties. That isn’t communism. |
So after months and months and months of the GOP saying that the sky was falling because of food prices, Harris announces her plan to combat price gouging and the GOP is mad about it. ![]() |
It’s an inflationary plan. So yes. |
If a few big corporations are colluding to fix prices they have been committing a crime. And if this is true, why hasn't the Biden-Harris administration been going after them? |
My guess is that inflation was going up everywhere so it wasn't apparent that there was price gouging. But, now that inflation has eased, yet food prices haven't come down much, there were reports that corporations were price fixing. Pricing fixing isn't immediately apparent. It takes time to uncover the scheme. |