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Originally Posted by Adak
Nobody supports unrestricted business or markets! But we need to limit those restrictions - otherwise you simply have very few businesses, and very little competition or innovation.
What you think might be good tight regulation, will result in excellent monopolies by the few businesses that will remain.
More regulation, comes with a cost - it's not free to the consumer, or to the business being regulated. Who pays for these added regulations, ultimately?
You and me - the consumer.
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Really depends on what we regulate. Mostly what needs to be regulated is the negative effect of greed, and morally reprehensible business practices..etc...
I've been to countries with very small if any real government. No pesky regulations or enforcement by the government in business. I've seen people grind red brick into red pepper to help "maximize profits", oh, then sold this to aid workers giving food to people assed out because of flooding on a Biblical scale. Some other people in a different area were doing the same thing with chalk and flour...for the same target population. Who pays for regulation? Who pays for lack of regulation? I guess it depends on our out look. Just want more profit at any cost? Then the consumer pays in more ways then money.
Our own country has seen this in the banking/home finance industry. A few hundred million dollars for a very small population, again maximizing profits, who quite frankly does not give a shit about billions of dollars in effects for our nation to pay for this greed and lack of principled business practices.
I've been across our country two or three times in the past year. Just got back from DC. My freedoms have never been infringed, not once. I vote, I travel where ever I like, I buy what I want (can afford), I speak my mind and my heart with out fear. I read what I like, can publish just about anything that is not slanderous. No one is coming to my door to enter my home with out permission. If I get pulled over for a speeding ticket and the police ask me how fast I was going, I ask if I can have my lawyer present during questioning. I keep a 7MM Magnum long rifle, a .22 rifle, and a .22 pistol in my man cave. I have a CC licence, but rarely carry my choice.
I am very curious what freedoms you have had infringed by government regulation?