Price Gouging and Property Rights . . .

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Price-gouging laws grossly violate property rights.

None of this means that raising prices on essential goods in the midst of a natural disaster is always moral, just, and right. But that is a matter of conscience, religion, and ethics, not law.
-Laurence Vance

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/09/laurence-m-vance/price-gouging-property-rights/