{"id":438,"date":"2007-08-22T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=438"},"modified":"2007-08-22T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:14:15","slug":"gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With hurricane season in force, Boortz dust off his anti-anti-gouging <a href=\"http:\/\/boortz.com\/nuze\/200708\/08222007.html#scam\">diatribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with him 100%.  People forget that gouging is part of the free market as well.  And while it sounds good to say, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to keep people from taking advantage of the situation&#8221;, it is, in fact, extremely bad policy that creates artificial shortages of nearly everything.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians never seem to learn this. Anti-gouging measures created the energy crisis of the 1970&#8217;s, price controls are creating massive delays and shortages in socialized medical systems and anti-gouging measures make bottled water, generators and hotel rooms impossible to come by during hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s for people&#8217;s own good.  And we luuuuuv the peepul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hurricane season in force, Boortz dust off his anti-anti-gouging diatribe. I agree with him 100%. People forget that gouging is part of the free market as well. And while it sounds good to say, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to keep people from taking advantage of the situation&#8221;, it is, in fact, extremely bad policy that creates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gouging<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-gouging","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}