To: xzins
"As soon as all those bidders have a gun to their head, then it is no longer a free market."
That's exactly what antitrust is, the government putting a gun to the heads of business telling them what prices to offer and how to distribute their products. It's the definition of fascism; government leaves *ownership* to private industry but runs it.
600 posted on
11/11/2005 7:57:57 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
I agree that government can put a gun to the head of the bidders. I agree that that is a corruption of the free market system.
However, I also think that other individuals/groups/entities can also put a gun to the head of the bidders. That, too, would be a corruption of the free market system.
605 posted on
11/11/2005 8:42:20 AM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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