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To: TimF who wrote (10492)	2/1/2006 1:26:33 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541503

If the government owned all American steel mills, but allowed foreign competition than it wouldn't have a monopoly on the US steel market but it would still be a socialist system. Sorry, but I think that's a stretch. In that case the government would, indeed, have a monopoly on the production of steel although not necessarily in its distribution. I can't think of why a government would form a monopoly on production and not on distribution so I'm not sure that condition could exist. You are working backwards from schools as an example and I think backing into it forces something that doesn't make sense.