On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Harry Penner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Harry, >> You assert that all regulation is designed to restrict choices. But, is >> that really true? Some regulation is designed to guarantee we have choices >> because without choice "free markets" devolve into abusive monopolies. > > Really? I can't name an actual monopoly in the last century that wasn't > mandated or at least hugely facilitated by government regulation. Can > you? If so, let's look at what prevented the choice. No offense, but I > suspect you're taking "free markets result in monopolies or at least in > a menu of nothing but bad choices" as an unexamined premise. And > without that premise, doesn't the prospect of bureaucrats making more > rules for you become much less attractive? "Unexamined premise?" Read Ayn Rand much? Did you start as a teenager? Mike