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To: TimF who wrote (109998)	4/18/2005 8:20:11 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 793712

If the goal is to have as little state regulation as possible, they should be in the proverbial hog heaven right now. Hardly. Regulation is extensive right now and there is no great likelyhood of any current legal, political or social trend reversing that fact. I gather you haven't kept up with the ways the Bush administration has staffed the various regulatory commissions, Tim. Or your libertarian self expects something that is unachievable before "hog heaven" arrives, which is that state gets completely out of the regulation basis. Right now the money guys, the ones who supported the Bush folk are either ending every regulation they can or bending it to their own interests. It would be libertarian to watch out for force or fraud from the big guys against the little guys, but not to intervene in the market through regulation or otherwise to try to give a leg up to the smaller companies. I suspect there are various strains within libertarian thought and one might emphasize the need to protect the property rights of small business owners. But I'm hardly knowledgeable about this body of political thought.

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