Quote:You just provided an example as to why regulations help large corporations, then argued that regulations are needed to avoid monopolies. 

 

Because that particular piece of legislation is written purely to benefit large corporations. Regulation should take force when a company becomes big enough to take advantage of is position in order to push out competition and ideally should only effect those large enough to handle the extra restriction. Unfortunately the American system right now is butt backwards because of the following:

 

Quote:I'm not sure how it works in European nations but state side monopolies are supposed to be illegal, what happens is very large companies become contributors to campaigns and find ways to have government endorse their monopolies. That's the problem we don't have true free market capitalism at all anymore, every field has become saturated with crony capitalism or blend of large corporations working with government.

 

it's why I stand to abolish almost all forms of modern government from the Department of Education, to Transportation to the NSA, the Homeland Security, the FBI the CIA and the IRS get ride of them all.

 

Like I said

 

Anarcho-Capitalist.

There's the source of 90% of your problems. Politicians are really only interested in keeping their seat, to do that they need to campaign, to campaign they need money, lobbyists for corporations pour money into campaigns funds, politicians enact laws to benefits their largest contributors. 

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