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To: GeneD
Is the free market not supposed to encourage competition rather than lead to its disappearance

The free market is meant to reward those that provide a needed service to the public. Part of its function is to eliminate those suppliers whose products or services are not required by the public e.g. the radio shows of Mario Cuomo and Jim Hightower. It is not the function of the free market to subsidise a section of the market which is not viable.

The government has taken upon itself the (unconstitutional)duty to subsidise those views which would not otherwise be commercially viable viz PBS,NPR etc.

Get a Lone Star Molly and go back in your kennel.

31 posted on 02/03/2003 1:15:32 PM PST by Timocrat
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To: Timocrat
The government has taken upon itself the (unconstitutional)duty to subsidise those views which would not otherwise be commercially viable viz PBS,NPR etc.
But then, the government created and controls all broadcasting via the FCC. Nothing the FCC does makes any constitutional sense if applied to print.

37 posted on 02/03/2003 1:43:55 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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