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To: TimF who wrote (39916)	12/24/2009 10:31:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "welfare, subsidies, corporate welfare, etc." Subsidy is subsidy...... Re: [Exercise of MONOPOLY PRICING POWER means --- by definition! --- that the market is a monopoly market, no longer a free market.] "No, that simply isn't part of the definition, and it would be ridiculous to add it." I'm not 'adding' anything. I suggest that you consult most any economics text book on the planet for an understanding of how exercise of monopoly pricing power distorts market pricing, access to markets, and capital formation, and is antithetical to Free Markets....