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Greg Casar: “We already make it illegal to ban price gouging when a…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Congressman Greg Casar discusses The CPC's New Affordability Agenda at CFA's Consumer Assembly

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

… pot shop and hit hard times, and then offering that worker a lower wage, knowing that they're desperate to get that trip or desperate to get that job. And so We already make it illegal to ban price gouging when a disaster strikes an entire community. And now we should do the same to stop companies from knowing when a disaster has struck your personal life in order to rip you off because of a personal emergency. (04:42–04:50)

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Asserts that price gouging is illegal during community-wide disasters.

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