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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: thames_sider who wrote (12545)5/9/2002 5:47:56 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Or code for 'big business before small or individual business', e.g. 'deregulation' of agriculture - which always seems to end with big businesses hogging lots of subsidy for intensive farming.

That's because the term deregulation sometimes isn't used to mean something that really is deregulation, but rather changing the current regulation around to favor some politically connected group. Often this requires increasing the level of regulation rather then decreasing it but its called deregulation anyway.

Real deregulation in agriculture would be enormously beneficial but the idea rarely gets enough strength behind it to go to far, and when ever actual useful reforms actually do manage to be put in to place they usually get destroyed in time for the next election cycle or the one after that.

Tim
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