The problem is the price gouging of ESSENTIAL items, toiletries are
included. Many states have laws against this during a state of
emergency, it IS illegal.Here is the law where I live:California's
anti-price gouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, ...
During a state of emergency, for example in California:California's
anti-price gouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, prohibits raising
the price of many consumer goods and services by more than 10% after an
emergency has been declared. Local laws ...
It's outrageous that we are allowing resale of an item as basic as
toilet paper on eBay for upwards of 500%.It's even illegal in some
states to be doing this when in a state of emergency.By allowing this,
basically we have groups of people buying up ...
To the people arguing about "free market, your problem"I understand in
the case of luxury items, but this shouldn't happen for essential
items.By letting the market run it's course, we are allowing people to
hoard essential items such as toilet paper...