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To: LPS5 who wrote (1)4/25/2002 12:55:18 AM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (1) of 2534
 
The '96 Act doesn't seek a free market solution. It tries to achieve a controlled market solution where local limitations presumably achieve the desirable goal. It says that local telcom providers must open their markets to the outside if they want access to other local provider markets. The idea starts with the assumption that no monopolizing local provider will open their market to competition because competition causes profits to fall. Therefore, they must be forced to open. That can't be done legally, but the 'crat authors think it can be done with the carrot and stick. It hasn't succeeded in 6 years and it will never succeed. The 'crat authors put their arbitrary constraint upon the market in order to make it "fair". As usual, they achieved the exact opposite of their intent.

This form of "fairness" forces market participants to do what is deemed necessary for a free market to exist. 'crats think free is synonymous with fair. The only expedient that achieves a free market is to get out of the way and allow the participants to slug it out freely. It's called "free for all". The 'crats that created the Act couldn't allow that because it sounds so Darwinian. They say that too many little guys would get hurt and big companies would turn into giant monopolies if the big companies were allowed to do what they want freely. So we end up with what we've now got and that's the best that 'crat intellect will allow in this era.
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