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> >
> > In a free market, a "monopoly", by definition, can not form.
>
>
> In a free market, a monopoly is always the end result. Government
> must preserve the marketplace.
>

You've got that exactly backwards. Taking the example of health
insurance...each state only has a limited number of health insurance
providers operating in the state. From what I've heard, there is only
ONE in Maine. This is due to state government interference in the
health insurance industry. It is a government created monopoly. If
health insurance company X wants to offer health insurance in Colorado,
they have to get permission from Colorado first. That's not a free
market, it is a state-created monopoly. -Dave

"Larry Sheldon" > wrote in message
...
> George Conklin wrote:
> > "Larry Sheldon" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Miles Bader wrote:
> >>> Scott in SoCal > writes:
> >>>> The reason it will probably be less is because when
> >>>> private industry is in charge, there is a strong financial incentive
> >>>> to maximize efficiency - an incentive that simply does not exist when
> >>>> the government is in charge of roads.
> >>>>
> >>>> In a truly free market, on a truly level field of competition, most
> >>>> cost-effective mode of transport will will.
> >>> That's not necessarily true. It's common for them to get stuck in
local
> >>> minima. Government intervention can help such situations (though of
> >>> course it doesn't always do so).
> >> In a truly free market, there is no Government Intervention. If there
> >> is government intervention there is no free market of any sort.
> >
> > Wrong. Governments preserve free enterprise by making sure you don't
have a
> > monopoly, like Blue Cross and Blue Shield got to be because they have an
> > exemption from the rules against monopolies.
>
> In a free market, a "monopoly", by definition, can not form.


In a free market, a monopoly is always the end result. Government must
preserve the marketplace.

George Conklin wrote:

> In a free market, a monopoly is always the end result. Government must
> preserve the marketplace.

In a free market, monopoly is impossible to sustain.

That's why leftists hate it.
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>> In a free market, a "monopoly", by definition, can not form.
>
>
> In a free market, a monopoly is always the end result.
> Government must
> preserve the marketplace.

Since we're all using usenet news readers here, what government laws
have prevented a monopoly of just one news reader from forming,
instead of the dozens of free or pay alternatives that currently
exist?