Alan Jones Comment - 29Aug07 - Trades Practices Act

[Poidar]

Did Woolies start paying Alan after this to keep him quiet? Were they paying before this and stopped, prompting this from Alan? ...or were the IGA supermarkets paying him this week? Why would anyone believe anything broadcast by Alan? ...It's even possible that Alan was broadcasting this in the public interest rather than his own. Who can say?

[dbetterton]

Anti-"price gouging" laws prevent producers and their customers from trading at mutually beneficial prices - sacrificing their interests to the interests of those who wish to avoid the "hardship" of paying prices higher than they are used to. By what right can the government force producers to set artificially low prices and prevent consumers from bidding up the price to get the products they are willing to pay for?