Should Trump freeze prices to prevent coronavirus gouging?

[Lakhota]

Consumers face coronavirus price-gouging

As fears over the coronavirus grow, people are frantically buying up supplies and leaving store shelves empty. Prices are also sky-rocketing online as demand grows, such as two large bottles of Purell hand sanitizer on sale for nearly $300 on Amazon. The same size normally sells for about $9 a bottle. An Amazon spokesperson says the company does not allow price gouging and it has "recently blocked or removed tens of thousands of offers." Anna Werner reports from a pharmacy in Manhattan on how coronavirus price gouging is affecting consumers.

How coronavirus price-gouging is hurting consumers

Have you experienced price gouging? I've heard several people say that they have. Since I don't do much shopping, I can't speak to any personal experiences - yet.

 

[petro]

All I know is gas has dropped nicely due to lower demand.

Haven't had to fight for toilet paper or Lysol yet.

But I am not a panicky idiot either.

 

[Lakhota]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

Because no where in the constitution is that spelled out as one of his duties or the duties of the federal government.

Oh yeah....forgot....the constitution only applies when you want it to apply.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

It was unconstitutional, and counterproductive, when Nixon did it.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

Should not have happened.

Who was the head of SCOTUS...Earl Warren. The biggest fuck up a judge in the hisotry of the country (with the exception of Ginsburg).

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

It was unconstitutional, and counterproductive, when Nixon did it.

counterproductive is an understatement...but it was never found to be unconstitutional

 

[waltky]

Only if inflation...

... goes up more than 3%.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

It was unconstitutional, and counterproductive, when Nixon did it.

counterproductive is an understatement...but it was never found to be unconstitutional

Like so many other unconstitutional things the government does......

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Should Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

what authority do you delusionally imagine that the President, or anyone else, has to do any such thing?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Should Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

what authority do you delusionally imagine that the President, or anyone else, has to do such a thing?

it has been done before for less of a reason.

 

[cutter]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

I remember when Carter froze wages and prices and it ended up just being a pain in the keester.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

it has been done before for less of a reason.

That a corrupt government has ever been allowed in the past to get away with doing something that is blatantly illegal is no excuse for allowing them to do it again, much less for demanding it.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

It was unconstitutional, and counterproductive, when Nixon did it.

counterproductive is an understatement...but it was never found to be unconstitutional

Please show where the Consitution gives them this capability.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Price gouging will not happen unless there is a shortage. So far at least around here there is no shortage.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

it has been done before for less of a reason.

That a corrupt government has ever been allowed in the past to get away with doing something that is blatantly illegal is no excuse for allowing them to do it again, much less for demanding it.

I agree, just pointing out the facts

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

You want lots of new companies to get into the face mask business, for example, to meet the demand. Higher prices can help provide the incentive to do that and to create competition that will reduce gouging.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why wouldn't Trump freeze prices to prevent gouging?

It's unconstitutional.
It's stupid.

Is it unconstitutional?

Do you not remember this... “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.”

Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon

It was unconstitutional, and counterproductive, when Nixon did it.

counterproductive is an understatement...but it was never found to be unconstitutional

Please show where the Consitution gives them this capability.

It has been done multiple times, WWII, Nixon, Carter. I do not know their reasoning, but I know it has never found to be unconstitutional