American politicians are intent, not on improving their country's competitiveness, but on gouging each other's eyes out.

美国的政客们都决绝的，不是要去提升国家的竞争力，而是要把彼此的眼珠子挖出来。

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Jeff Jacoby, a pro-market commentator writing in the Boston Globe, argued against price-gouging laws on similar grounds: "it isn't going to charge what the market will bear."

杰夫·雅各比是市场万能论者，波士顿环球报撰稿人。出于同样的理由，他反对价格欺诈法：“并非对市场狮子大开口。”

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The Club for Growth, a lobby for economic conservatives, assails him for hiking sales and petrol taxes in Arkansas, and for his attacks on industries he accused of "price-gouging".

增长俱乐部，一个经济保守派的游说团体，攻击说他提高了Arkansas州的销售和汽油税，而且说他指控企业犯有“价格欺诈”。

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You can go way there's lots of books on this and articles on this; why cockfighting was more popular in the South, why country fighting and eye-gouging was--.

你可以去查阅,有很多相关的资料和书籍,为什么斗鸡在南方更盛行,为什么打架和挖眼珠子更

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And since the Texas Governor doesn't have much power, he had no choice but to build a big coalition, work with the Democrats and generally conduct himself in a way that offered a perfect contrast to the eye gouging going on in Washington.

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So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?

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Mere mortals will need to wait until the third quarter of the year -- if not longer, depending on their region and tolerance for some probable price gouging in the early going -- to get their hands on the mighty Nokia N96.

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