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To: Born Conservative
 
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith
That quote is usually applied to corporations - but exactly how does it not apply to unions?
35 posted on 11/15/2009 12:07:46 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Anyone who claims to be objective marks himself as hopelessly subjective.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

> That quote is usually applied to corporations - but exactly how does it not apply to unions?

I should have thought that self-evident. It applies to unions as much if not more than it does to corporations.

After all, what is a union but an incorporation of workers contracted to an entire industry? It is by very nature a monopoly if it can get its grubby claws into the industry deep enough.


46 posted on 11/15/2009 1:03:40 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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