As an extreme example, let's say that someone has cornered the market on gasoline. All of a sudden, he decides that gasoline will sell for $5 a gallon (this is 4-5 times what it sells for in my area of the US currently). People will be forced to purchase gasoline at $5 a gallon. They cannot subsist without it, for if they did go without it, they wouldn't be able to get to their jobs, which they would lose, etc., etc., and they die. This is, to me, unethical. Now, I realize that the empeg is not a required commodity, but your statement ``Why anyone thinks that selling a product for what the market is willing to pay is unethical is beyond me'' does not qualify itself at all.

The sort of laissez-faire capitalism that you seem to be espousing worked very well in the United States for about 100 years, at least for all the fatcats. Everyone else got shat upon. So you may want to rethink your ideas, for our sake, before you get into public office.

And that's all I'll say.