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Tag: price gouging

The Dangerous Duped Physician

August 22, 2025   9:42 amAugust 22, 2025   9:42 am
The duped physician is the one who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.  And once controlled, that physician becomes a menace to society by prescribing disability, poverty, and squalor instead of healing, contentment,...
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More Californians Blame Gas Tax Than ‘Price Gouging’ For Highest Gas Prices

July 23, 2024   8:56 pmJuly 24, 2024   9:13 pm
According to a newly released Slingshot California Topline poll, nearly half of all Californians blame the state’s gas tax for why California’s gasoline prices are so high, with only around a third saying that price gouging is to blame. While...
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California Shifts Blame for High Gas Prices

August 8, 2023   6:18 amAugust 8, 2023   6:43 am
By Marc Joffe and Ryan Bourne Although they are off their all-time highs, gasoline prices in California remain elevated. Gas Buddy recently reported that statewide gas prices averaged $4.89. This was $1.08 higher than average prices in neighboring Arizona and $1.50 more...
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Gov. Newsom Revises Political Stunt As Californians Are Left Paying The Bill

October 21, 2022   2:45 amOctober 20, 2022   4:41 pm
Governor Gavin Newsom’s call for a special legislative session on December 5 to impose “windfall taxes” on oil companies is nothing but a political stunt and politics at its worst. If Newsom thinks there is price-gouging, then he should call...
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You Shouldn’t Need to be a Private Investigator to Determine Healthcare Prices   

April 3, 2021   7:58 amApril 3, 2021   8:18 am
After the COVID-19 pandemic ends, the epidemic of high and hidden healthcare prices plaguing ordinary Americans will remain. Though it rarely makes it to the top of the 24-hour news cycle, fixing the U.S. healthcare system, which is devouring the...
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New Bill Would Aim to Stop Price Gouging During State Emergencies

April 9, 2020   2:16 pmApril 12, 2020   11:28 am
On Wednesday, a new bill that targets price gougers during states of emergency was announced. Expanded misdemeanors for price gougers Under Senate Bill 1196, authored by Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana), consumer protections against price gougers would be expanded....
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