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But the dangers of government-granted monopoly cannot be solved by government itself holding the monopoly and waste resulting from limiting competition cannot be improved by doing away with real competition altogether. The Austrians would later address the error in doing so.
By this logic, any action or corollary inaction, because it will in some way effect the transactions one makes or would have made, is within the domain of interstate commerce and may be legally regulated.
If government, even with strict and supposedly unambiguous guidelines, cannot be restrained from intervening in the economy and thus creating monopolies and causing waste, then the responsibility must fall on the voting population, or so goes a common argument. Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” But is it reasonable to believe that a population could possibly remain eternally vigilant, even as the State slowly but surely boils the water in which the people sit?
Public choice theory leads us to believe otherwise. Because an individual in business has far more to gain from anticompetition legislation in his industry being passed than the average taxpayer stands to gain from it being voted down, businesses will be more incentivized to lobby for regulation than the population will be to protest against it. In fact, the typical voter may not even be aware of the bill or have any rational reason to be aware, much less concerned.
Oskar Lange, “On the Economic Theory of Socialism: Part Two” The Review of Economic Studies Vol. 4, No. 2 (1937), 131-32.
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy (New York: Dissident Books, 2009), 139.

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