All Posts Tagged With: "cartelization"
There’s Too Little Trust in Government?
There is one point on which I can unequivocally agree with E. J. Dionne, Jr.’s, column “Can We Reverse the Tide on Government Distrust?”: “So far, the Obama administration has missed the opportunity to demonstrate . . . how it is changing the way government works. How is its approach to . . . regulations [...]
22Oct2010 | Charles Johnson | 2 comments | Continued“The Tariff is the Mother of Trusts”
Why should we expect business people to favor laissez faire and to abhor government intervention? Few people outside of business do so.
1Jun2006 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedFirst, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers
Organized groups—businesses, labor unions, professional associations—frequently lobby for laws and regulations to shield them from having to face wide open competition. Competition is great everywhere else, they say, but our particular field is different. We need sensible controls and regulations to protect the public against incompetence and the evils of cutthroat competition. What the group [...]
1Jun1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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