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To: Publius6961
Clearly some regulation of markets for essential goods and services is required but do we really need the Feds to police the market for super premium ice cream (Nestlé/Dreyer's) or cruises (Carnival/Royal Caribbean)?

Rhetorical question - of course not.

Antitrust enforcement has devolved into nothing more than a shake-down machine. The nadir was reached under Clinton (who else) with Pitofsky and Klein at the FTC and DoJ routinely extracting a Beltway tax on all major mergers.

Recall that Microsoft were spending less than $1m a year on lobbyists until Larry Ellison paid for an antitrust hit on them.

FTC, DoJ, FCC, EPA, FDA,..., smash them all and start over.

10 posted on 04/19/2012 8:44:21 PM PDT by Vide
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To: Vide
Antitrust enforcement has devolved into nothing more than a shake-down machine. The nadir was reached under Clinton (who else) with Pitofsky and Klein at the FTC and DoJ routinely extracting a Beltway tax on all major mergers. 

You are right about that even though I favor reasonable and fair anti-trust enforcement. A recent example of the shake down is all the concessions to minorities and "the poor" Comcast had to make to buy NBC from GE. Actually it bought 51% I think. Now that idiot Magic Johnson is going to be running a Comcast channel and 7 other black/Hispanic channels are coming soon. Now Comcast is forced to offer $10/internet and cheap computers to the poor who have a child in school that other Comcast customers will be forced to subsidize.

22 posted on 04/20/2012 5:52:15 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Vide

Don’t forget that at this same time Bill, Hillary, and Algore were making monthly trips to Gate’s house all the while Janet Reno was suing them.


32 posted on 04/20/2012 10:10:05 AM PDT by shotgun
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