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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GordoJay" data-source="post: 1743282" data-attributes="member: 39584">If I’m hit by a hurricane and without power for weeks, I’d much rather sit on my butt and wait for FEMA to show up months later to rescue me rather than pay $10k to a guy from somewhere else who had the initiative to fill his pickup with generators and drive all night to gouge me. NOT Those laws make it illegal to help others. Is that really what we want?Anti gouging laws extend the misery and compound the inequity. But they do protect the government’s monopoly on helping, so they’re always popular with legislators. It’s like communism. The only way to make everyone equal is to make everyone poor.</blockquote>