Originally Posted by mecabq

+1 This is insane. It's amazing how so many people are so willing to undermine basic principles that allow capitalism to function. This has been tried before, with disastrous results.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of examples in the market of sleazy bait-and-switch tactics that we can rightly deplore. But it does not automatically follow that the government should regulate all manner of voluntary transactions between consenting actors.