{"id":46479,"date":"2020-04-21T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46479"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:13:09","slug":"did-you-know-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/04\/did-you-know-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Anti-Price-gouging-mask-money-shutterstock_1634924239-1280.jpg?fit=1024%2C664&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Anti-Price-gouging-mask-money-shutterstock_1634924239-1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Anti-Price-gouging-mask-money-shutterstock_1634924239-1280-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Anti-Price-gouging-mask-money-shutterstock_1634924239-1280-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Anti-Price-gouging-mask-money-shutterstock_1634924239-1280-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you know that the State of Florida has anti-price-gouging laws? Not only does the state have laws against merchants who raise prices during a state-wide or national emergency (such as we are suffering now under this COVID-19 pandemic) on much-needed and life-sustaining products such as food and medical supplies, but it also has laws against raising prices on other important items such as toilet paper and paper towels. You can even find an app on the internet to report price gouging! The Florida State Attorney General, Ashely Moody, has come down hard on price gougers. She has received reports of price gouging on prices of gasoline, hotel rooms, food and other items important to the Florida consumer and residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Under Florida\u2019s price gouging laws, violators may face penalties of up to $1,000 per violation and a total of $25,000 in fines for more than one violation. Be aware though that Florida\u2019s price gouging laws only apply in counties under a State of Emergency Declaration and it appears that Governor DeSantis is beginning to move away from the State\u2019s Emergency Declaration. If you have found a merchant who is involved in price gouging, take a photo of the price on the item, then call 866-9NO-SCAM. This telephone number has been established for Florida Residents to report all price gougers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that the State of Florida has anti-price-gouging laws? Not only does the state have laws against merchants who raise prices during a state-wide or&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}