Said Matthew James Gering,
Bullshit, monopolies exist because of the regulation.
I'm afraid sir, that your ingonorance is showing. Pick up any college (hell, high school) ecomonics textbook. Certain types of businesses are inheritly advantagious to monopolies. The electric company is the classic example- their is no cost effective way for an electric company to supply power to a given area unless it is a monopoly. Certain types of businesses are suited to certain types of competition, and, unregulated, monopolies are exactly what you get. This was exactly the situation that occured at the turn of the century and it happened because regulation was non-existant! Your statement is wonderfully trite but I see no evidence to support it. ___________________________________________________________________________ "DOS/WIN based computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." - New York Times -Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott <mailto:k-elliott@wiu.edu>