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]A company would have to prove a price increase is due to increased shipping costs in getting product in from outside the norm supply chains in order to justify a price increase.[/b] If audited I think the only proof should be that the profit margin is the same with the price increase IMHO.
That totally depends on the scenario. In the Texas flooding, SOME supplies can be delivered fairly easily. The disaster does create a demand for water, but what about other supplies?
Imagine we are in a war zone. Who's going to ship anything to us at $1/bottle? What if we are willing to pay $1,000 for a bottle of water?
How was Polio vaccine manufactured and delivered? Invention is one thing, but manufacturing and distribution is another. Thousands of inventions are sitting in the patent offices like farts in the wind.
Do you even know what monopoly is??? anti-price gouging is MONOPOLY.
The evil in anti-price gouging is that people are OK with watching other people die and suffer. Anti-price gouging causes more suffering and death because other companies outside of the disaster zone don't have much incentive to ship supplies.
Let me help you out here.
Monopoly - monopolies (plural noun)
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service:
Therefore, a store who is the only store accessible to the people control the supply of the commodities they sell. Hence, they are the textbook definition of a monopoly.
Your anti-gouging point doesn't make any sense whatsoever. There are zero (count them) companies who will refuse to ship in supplies to disaster areas because they cannot make the profit they want to make. This goes back to the corporate responsibility piece that you ignored earlier on. Companies ALL work together to bring in supplies to help their fellow man. It is one of the few times in our country that you will find people putting down their political/religious beliefs and working together for the common good. The incentive has already been explained ad-nauseum.
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