{"id":12199,"date":"2024-08-21T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:02:22","slug":"banning-price-gouging-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12199","title":{"rendered":"Banning \u201cPrice Gouging\u201d a Good Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-price-gouging-a-good-idea\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-price-gouging-a-good-idea\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week during her Presidential campaign, Vice-President Harris proposed banning \u201cprice gouging\u201d in an attempt to counter the steep increase in prices some companies implement after supply disruptions. This may be an attempt to counter the economic weakness of the Biden-Harris administration, under which the cost of groceries and other necessities has risen by approximately nineteen percent.<\/p>\n<p>Increased costs <em>have<\/em> left families across our state struggling to make ends meet. However, government artificially dampening prices will most likely increase inflation, not competition. Our free enterprise system works best when healthy competition in the market is encouraged rather than hampered by government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-price-gouging-a-good-idea\/ Last week during her Presidential campaign, Vice-President Harris proposed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12200,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions\/12200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}