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| Little ray of sunshine  |
There are several lawyers taking part in this thread. What does that even mean? Is that a dig about lawyers not having morals? The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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safe & sound |
I'm on board! Let's start by taxing all non brick and mortar businesses selling within the state quadruple taxes to make up for the tax dollars lost by them not operating brick and mortar locations? Since we're missing the property taxes, sales taxes, employment taxes, utility taxes, fuel taxes, etc, they (and more importantly their customers) need to start paying their fair share. I'll sell my generators for price X every single day of the year so long as Amazon.com isn't legally allowed to undercut my prices AND the taxes we are missing are tacked on top of that. Deal? | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Supply and demand. The most elementary concept in economics, and the basis of capitalism. | |||
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| Member |
I think you already won that one. Didn’t Congress pass the bill forcing sales tax to be collected? This thread isn’t about taxes. You cherry picked one idea, a tiny one, out of my rant. I will participate if you start a tax thread though. Lol | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
There is quite a difference between a perceived emergency and a true life and death crisis. One, the seller raises the price to what ever he thinks he can get. Regardless of what people can afford to pay. Not a huge fan to the extreme. Consumers do not forget. But the market and peoples conscious is what prevails. The other he is over run or killed if he resist's by gun toting desperate folks willing to do anything for things they need to survive. We have yet to get to scenario #2. But it could happen. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Honky Lips |
Price and supply controls are the single stupidest thing anyone with the power to enforce them can do. If you choose to disagree with me on this point, you're flatly wrong. Additionally I challenge you to show a single example of it working. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
Where does it stop? If we can control prices when it is "gouging" why not at some other times? Say, during a time of inflation. (This was tried, by the way.) Why not because people need bread, so bread can only be sold for fifty cents a loaf? Next, it wouldn't be just bread, but also baloney, because you need to put something in the sandwich. Sure, we don't have pure capitalism. (But close-ish, for the most part.) Every step toward less capitalism is one we shouldn't take. Screwing with markets is almost never the right approach. Here's another similar line of reasoning: We don't have a pure "right to keep an bear arms" regime. We can't get any new machine guns, and artillery is right out. So, why not ban ARs? I mean, we don't have a pure 2d amendment right anyway. And ARs are very scary, and not really necessary. So let's restrict them, for the children. Wouldn't you argue that is just a step to banning any semi-autos? And then to banning some other class, and then . . . Incremental steps to a bad result may not seem so obviously a problem, but they are. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Nah.  Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill. Who gets it? The old drunk, of course, the other three are fantasy creatures. What's the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer? A bad lawyer can let a case drag out for several years. A good lawyer can make it last even longer. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
Just a pesky economic reality. Quit your nitpicking. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
I always enjoy the jokes, and I haven't heard that one. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Yes, Chellim1 is correct. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Nail. On. Head. First of all, the entity that will control "price gouging" will be the government, not exactly one with a clean track record of any sorts. In Los Angeles, a city with anti-gouging laws, right after the Northridge earthquake, moving companies were charged with "gouging" their customers by approx. 25% over normal pricing. So by this logic, should roofing companies be charged with anti-gouging laws for charging more during rainy season, and less during the summer? Should I be guilty of gouging because I charge a client more for bringing me a project at the last minute? Is it gouging when I pay 10 bucks for a beer at the ballgame, yet at my local bar, it is only $4.00? To me, the extra price one pays for a generator, a pack of D cell batteries, flashlights, water, etc. is the price of not bothering to prepare. I have a plaque hung in my office with a phrase I have used with "red flag" folks who wanted to hire me (and I turned them down); "Your lack of planning is not my emergency" "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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