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Originally posted by Spanky
Fortunately in the United State very few consumer markets are regulated by the government. From now on I will use manipulate because you think that business regulation and market regulation are the same thing. When the government regulates a market, and by that decides what the consumer needs, or what the pricing should be then that is market manipulation. Can you name a consumer market where the government decides how much people need or get. Or how much of a product people should buy. Farm products are one. The government did regulate the airlines and the telecom industry but not anymore. The Government tiried to fix gas prices, but that didn't work. Some gas markets are manipulated. But now you want to decide what kind of news media people should get.
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You're funny when you're militantly ignorant. Please keep telling me about different kinds of regulation.
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Wrong. These are products only the collective can purchase.
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While we seem to disagree on semantics here, you are proving my point.
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Wow. Yes I agree our news media produces too much opinion and not enough fact for my liking. But that does not mean I think government should do anything about it.
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Not necessarily, I agree. I was just trying to talk about it.
As I understand, you think the market performs poorly, but you're not willing to have the government spend any money to fix it.
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I don't like the fact that hollywood studio use so much smoking in their moviews but that doesn't mean I think that the government should step in censor movies.
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OK. I'm with you there. I was thinking that the remedy for an insufficiency of a certain kind of speech was more speech, actually.
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All taxation is forced. Any money the government spends is paid for by forced taxation. You are forced to help pay for national defense even if you don't agree with it. Same goes with public education and welfare.
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If people democratically choose to tax themselves to have the government buy these things, it must be the right choice, right?
