http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/economists-petition-repeal-the-anti-price-gouging-laws-to-ensure-our-health-and-safety-during-this-coronavirus-epidemic.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:51 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24163830?utm_medium=rss Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:49:18 UTC 24163830 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24000297?utm_medium=rss Price gouging is a moral right and economic good in times of crisis. It reduces shortages, stockpiling, delivers goods to those who deem them the most valuable, and rewards the industry participants for their endeavors. Lastly, but most importantly, price gouging does not violate individual rights. Nobody has a right to another's property at a non-mutually agreed upon price.

]]> Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:48:45 UTC 24000297 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23978521?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Dec 2020 04:13:20 UTC 23978521 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23646270?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Jun 2020 07:43:45 UTC 23646270 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23646018?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Jun 2020 02:29:06 UTC 23646018 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23605672?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 May 2020 05:40:36 UTC 23605672 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23602754?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 May 2020 03:15:50 UTC 23602754 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23591369?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 May 2020 06:35:55 UTC 23591369 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23585081?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:01:17 UTC 23585081 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23576220?utm_medium=rss Agreed. Market equilibrium needs to be achieved by organic means.

]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:36:10 UTC 23576220 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23575819?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Apr 2020 02:29:03 UTC 23575819 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23575501?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:12:56 UTC 23575501 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23573493?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:39:14 UTC 23573493 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23572984?utm_medium=rss Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:06:07 UTC 23572984 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23572170?utm_medium=rss I am simply a citizen of the USA, who understands individual freedom. And I understand the government has no right to interfere in trade of any kind. Repeal price gouging laws!

]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:46:17 UTC 23572170 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23569526?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:55:01 UTC 23569526 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23567855?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:17:20 UTC 23567855 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23562444?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:12:34 UTC 23562444 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23561105?utm_medium=rss I am an interested individual who recognizes that freedom means the ability to charge prices according to economics rather than the dictates of the state.

]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:45:03 UTC 23561105 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23559790?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:42:03 UTC 23559790 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23557608?utm_medium=rss I was thinking this petition is worthwhile, maybe even productive, even though some REAL go-getters, which are surely out there, will increase supply in ANTICIPATION of increased demand in such circumstances, even at the current prices, not waiting for prices to go up. Hell with the fat boys who wait to increase supply to REFLECT higher prices. The go-getters are as much a part of the market as the fat boys. The go-getters might keep prices from raising, leaving the fat boys in place, high and dry. But, then, maybe I'm wrong, and must yield to you educated academics. As the go-getters increase their own demand upstream, their suppliers might not respond fast enough. You have indicated that, here. So maybe prices must rise, including those of the go-getters, downstream, temporarily, at least. So, maybe this can't be called 'gouging'. Am I right, or wrong? Somebody, up there, please teach me a bit. Mike Kevitt mkkevitt@yahoo.com

]]> Sun, 19 Apr 2020 04:31:24 UTC 23557608 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23550661?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:36:00 UTC 23550661 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23549437?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:05:48 UTC 23549437 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23548781?utm_medium=rss Concerned citizen

]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2020 02:09:33 UTC 23548781 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23548728?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:58:59 UTC 23548728 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23548451?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:44:28 UTC 23548451 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23548303?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:11:30 UTC 23548303 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23548295?utm_medium=rss Please repeal these and any other rights violating laws, now!

]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:10:45 UTC 23548295 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23544747?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:23:12 UTC 23544747 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23544592?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:07:07 UTC 23544592 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23544219?utm_medium=rss Price is the only "blind" way in which to allocate a scarce product. You do not see lines in front of the Ferrari Dealer.

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:27:53 UTC 23544219 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23544217?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:26:54 UTC 23544217 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23534793?utm_medium=rss The illegitimacy of price gouging is ECON 101, repeal these laws!

]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:11:18 UTC 23534793 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23534653?utm_medium=rss Price adjustments are key to a functioning market. Even legislators who are skeptical of this policy at least consider encoding in law an acceptable percentage increase in price so that sellers know what the boundaries of the law actually are, Most anti-price gouging laws have no specific definitions of what price increases constitute gouging.

]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:03:56 UTC 23534653 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23534523?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:34:43 UTC 23534523 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23534466?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:04:57 UTC 23534466 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23534343?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:10:45 UTC 23534343 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23532523?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:52:56 UTC 23532523 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23531351?utm_medium=rss Get the price right.

]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:20:28 UTC 23531351 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23531272?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:45:53 UTC 23531272 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23531175?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:04:50 UTC 23531175 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23531059?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:01:26 UTC 23531059 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23531054?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:58:39 UTC 23531054 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23530864?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 06:08:57 UTC 23530864 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23530797?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:36:35 UTC 23530797 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23530785?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:24:44 UTC 23530785 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23530747?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:07:35 UTC 23530747 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23530748?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:07:35 UTC 23530748 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23529717?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:48:09 UTC 23529717 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23527320?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2020 02:00:20 UTC 23527320 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23525856?utm_medium=rss To be is to be something; man is the rational animal and must produce what he seeks; profit is life in that a bird has to get more out of eating a work than he extends by catching it. Same for man. If he does not profit, then he dies. Let freedom ring!

]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2020 05:12:45 UTC 23525856 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23525642?utm_medium=rss Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:51:42 UTC 23525642 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23525186?utm_medium=rss Sat, 11 Apr 2020 02:15:30 UTC 23525186 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23524311?utm_medium=rss Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:15:48 UTC 23524311 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23522803?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:14:33 UTC 23522803 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23521909?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 Apr 2020 04:35:52 UTC 23521909 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23521797?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 Apr 2020 03:44:31 UTC 23521797 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23520361?utm_medium=rss Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:35:59 UTC 23520361 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23520209?utm_medium=rss The market price is an invaluable tool measuring the needs of the market. Any governmental wth prices means that the market is hampered in increasing supply.

]]> Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:33:36 UTC 23520209 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23519720?utm_medium=rss "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." -Ayn Rand

]]> Wed, 8 Apr 2020 07:48:06 UTC 23519720 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23517441?utm_medium=rss The entire reaction to virus is utterly insane! Shelter in place for elderly and sickly and allow everybody else to go to work. Never in history have the vast majority 90% of the population had to sacrifice for a minority. Welcome to the Depression and all the bad things that are going to follow!!

]]> Wed, 8 Apr 2020 01:26:40 UTC 23517441 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23517215?utm_medium=rss When an opportunist buys up a huge number of masks to sell on ebay at a 1000% markup, thats price gouging. If a co. has to rent more space, hire and train more workers, pay more overtime, rent more trucks, then increasing prices to supply desperate consumers is not price gouging.

]]> Wed, 8 Apr 2020 12:58:54 UTC 23517215 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513933?utm_medium=rss Tue, 7 Apr 2020 02:12:29 UTC 23513933 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513655?utm_medium=rss I thoroughly agree with the conclusions of this statement.
Let us not allow ignorance of basic economics combined with emotion guide us during a time when adherence to reality is needed most.

]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:15:22 UTC 23513655 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513649?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:50:09 UTC 23513649 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513591?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Apr 2020 08:50:15 UTC 23513591 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513538?utm_medium=rss The right for an individual to live as a rational animal is absolute.

]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2020 07:11:30 UTC 23513538 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513531?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Apr 2020 06:49:43 UTC 23513531 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513525?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Apr 2020 06:34:57 UTC 23513525 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23513520?utm_medium=rss Price gouging laws are ineffective, even damaging. Please repeal them immediately.

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]]> Thu, 2 Apr 2020 12:08:03 UTC 23510934 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23510799?utm_medium=rss I am a certified public accountant (inactive due to retirement).

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