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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16369)1/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: miraje   of 24154
 
Norm,

<<but I do recognize the farmer who owns both the farm and local shipping business for what he is. Using the trucking division profits and leverage to put the other legitimate farmers out of business may sound like capitalism to you but it sounds more like racketeering to me.>>

What's to stop the other farmers from forming a shipping cooperative? What happens to the "racketeer" when his trucks have nothing to haul and he can't make the payments on them?

There have been several posts equating MSFT and the old AT&T. Talk about two completely different situations! The old telephone monopoly was a govenment mandated quasi-socialist setup. Prices were fixed and regulated. Competition was forbidden by law. Busting up that elephant was valid and proper. "T" did do a good job of overhauling itself to compete in the market but it wasn't easy for them.

Regards, JB
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