We passed an anti-price gouging law in Portland years ago that is simple and brilliant.
Every store inside the airport must sell items at the same price they’d be in a normal store inside city limits.
It’s a bit of a shock when you buy a bottle of water there for $2, then on your return trip it’s $8 somewhere else.
Every airport in every city should have this law.
Your screenshot seems to attribute the price difference to the gummint (taxes), while your text seems to chalk it up to unrestricted monopoly (price gouging). Do you know which is mostly responsible?
Even funnier is that the solution you cite uses even more government to help the consumer. I don't think you and person you've quoted actually agree on how to solve things. ;-)
@jztusk I don’t know why the person mentioned a 8% CA tax when the price is 300% more. It’s a distraction from the main point.
I think it’s a great use of government resources. I’m love that Portland uses government control over things like predatory price fixing of a captive audience that can’t shop elsewhere. I thought I was clear enough in my text.
Also, could you help make mastodon a nicer place and maybe not be so judgmental of strangers here?
Ouch, sorry. You were definitely clear that you liked the government solution, and I'm with you on that. I was just struck by the irony of the screen shot person blaming the high cost on government, when that was what provided the solution.
I'll have to do better at remembering "this person doesn't know me" when replying on Mastodon. Guess I got lazy - thanks for the copiously considerate reminder. 😳
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