In a free society I can buy what I want and the quantities I want. You can spin it anyway you want to and for whatever product you want to. Either way it is total BS and as UnAmerican as you can get. A free market works on supply and demand.
No, it is actually regulated... We can argue whether that is right or wrong, but there is a LARGE amount of regulation.
Monopolies, for example, are not allowed. The SEC (no, not the college football conference) decides if major mergers, like Sprint and T-Mobile, would be allowed and still alllow mostly fair trade.
You are trying to split atoms! I clearly said there is regulations.
Price gouging is for commercial businesses and corporations. What an individual owns and wants to sell and at what price is purely up to them. You the consumer also have the same right to not pay for the product at asking price.
I said once I buy a product that product is mine and I can choose to hang on to it or sell it if I so desire. The price that I choose to sell it for is up to me, and it is up to you the buyer to decide if you are willing to pay that price.
When a person buys a product it may or may not have been in high demand. That person could have bought 20 Classic Muscle Cars 50 years ago and now decides they want to sell. Supply and demand is a partial dictator of the price. I know a car isn't a critical item and isn't the same thing. Well yes and no! That mask wasn't a crucial item when that person bought it and now it is. Or toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc.....
If you believe different then all I can say is you are as liberal/socialist as they come!
