On 12/14/06, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:00:50PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
> When you give businesses monoplies, you have to regulate them. Scream
> "socialism" is you want (doesn't bother me in the least); I'll just
smile
> and say "Enron."

Well, Enron wasn't a monopoly.

But I do agree... only the most hardcore anarcho-capitalist would
consider regulation of monopolies "Socialism".  I get yelled at by
"true" Libertarians because I do not denounce the concepts of government
and taxation entirely :-)


If the monopoly is due to some act of government, then government has an
obligation to regulate, and they have an obligation to have a time limit
that monopoly will be allowed. After that time, the infrastructure created
goes back to the government, and should be auctioned back into the private
sector in non-monopolistic sizes.

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JD Runyan

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