Uh, ok, I'll defer to your genius.
Please, all of us here want to know, what is your exact plan to stop price gouging?
Please be detailed.
Tell us:
1: Exactly how you would determine someone is "gouging"
2. What you would do to stop these evil capitalists from selling a product at a "gouging" price.
I want specifics. You have oodles of credibility, so fire away.
We're all waiting.
Oh, and as a kicker, please explain how your super-special anti-gouging laws will work to prevent gas lines and shortages like they've always caused before.
I guess it's like the (other) liberals say - the soviet union only failed because the right people weren't in charge. The priciples of communism were obviously sound, we just need a wise leader to make it all happen.
Maybe you're that person.
Tell us how it would all work, great leader.
We're waiting.
Gouging is when the customer needs something that is critical to their health and when the supplier has a monopoly over a short time period. An example would be someone needs a ladder to escape from a burning building and you have the only ladder around. Gouging is if you ask 10,000 dollars to rent the ladder for a few minutes. Here you have a temporary monopoly and the customer needs it to survive.