To: Elmer Phud who wrote (259476 ) 4/6/2009 11:44:32 AM From: fastpathguru Read Replies (2) | Respond to [Updated]Clearly protecting competition is intended as a means of protecting the consumer. Clearly? This is exactly what I've been saying all along, and you have been arguing with me every step of the way!usdoj.gov For over six decades, the mission of the Antitrust Division has been to promote and protect the competitive process — and the American economy — through the enforcement of the antitrust laws. The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and marketing. They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade, such as price-fixing conspiracies, corporate mergers likely to reduce the competitive vigor of particular markets, and predatory acts designed to achieve or maintain monopoly power.for the benefit of businesses and consumers do not impose unnecessary costs on American businesses and consumers.The historic goal of the antitrust laws is to protect economic freedom and opportunity by promoting competition in the marketplace. Competition in a free market benefits American consumers through lower prices, better quality and greater choice. Competition provides businesses the opportunity to compete on price and quality, in an open market and on a level playing field, unhampered by anticompetitive restraints. Competition also tests and hardens American companies at home, the better to succeed abroad.
