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The Problem With Socialist Monopolies
Democratic socialists routinely accuse capitalism of producing harmful monopolies, yet their preferred remedy, turning industries into public utilities, simply hands one single entity, the state, total and coercive control instead. Interventionists of all stripes don’t realize that monopoly is enabled and created by government policy, not inherent features of free markets. The following article was […]
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We Need More Government… Clarifying Property Right
Many forms of regulation have an origin story rooted in a historical example of a business damaging everyone around for quick gain. These examples of negative externalities show something that can apparently only be fixed by regulation. If a business is allowed freedom and they used it to damage the common good, the government that […]
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