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To: hmaly who wrote (138424)	8/1/2001 11:38:44 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583931

Having a situation where the law does not artificially reduce someone's capability to compete in the market is closer to the ideal of capitalism then one where the law officially discriminates against some and gives special advantages to others. Trust busting and equal opportunity laws are not really what I was talking about. I am talking about not having the law itself discriminate. Of course it is true that many groups of people where legally discriminated against in the past. You can have a very capitalistic system even with such official legal discrimination but it the legal discrimination in economic areas makes the system less capitalist then it would be if there was no such discrimination. Equal opportunity laws arguably make the system less capitalist as well. Tim