> From: John D. Alleyn-Day <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >Jim Phillips wrote:
> >> Truer words were never written.  Can anyone name one industry which
the
> >> government (anyone's, not just the USofA) has meddled in, and the
> >> industry is better off for it?
>
<<John's responase snipped.>>

Maybe, maybe not, but the question also relates to the consumer.
Gasoline is now about $1 a gallon. if Rockefeler's monooply had
not been broken up, we might be paying $2 a gallon today.  If
A. T. & T. had not been broken up,  our phone bills might be
double what they are today.  There are many other examples.

The point is that it becomes too easy for a company that has
a monoply to become innefficient or greedy or whatever and
the consumer suffers.

Nick Demos  [log in to unmask]
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