re limiting govt was re employment was re why not concentrate in article slagle apr sgi msd lmsc lockheed com slagle lmsc lockheed com writes in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes in article apr cbnewse cb att com doctor cbnewse cb att com patrick b hailey writes the point is that this law protects no one but the established car dealers or people with enough money to start a fairly big operation all at once protecting these folks from competition protects the rest of us from low prices and high quality an excellent point but you seem to be missing a more subtle point it is not the government that should be the recipient of your displeasure but the established business interests that influence and direct government action in this case it is the government that is preventing entry to the market the desire of those running established businesses to prevent or restrict the entry of competitors is an understandable though generally unpleasant human failing but without a means to act on this desire without a government with sufficient power to restrict the options of the potential competitor the anti competitive desire remains just an unpleasant wish the government is the linchpin so we seek to disengage it so we don t get the shaft once again mark you don t specify the means through which the government is to be prevented from becoming the tool of business interests as a left wing big government conventional liberal i m just as willing as you are to vote against anti competitive regulations that favor auto dealers but what i hear from libertarians is a desire to limit incumbents terms to weaken government by eliminating its power to enforce antitrust laws and a desire to eliminate legislator s pay each strikes me as a particularly ineffective way to insure that auto dealers and other special interests cannot influence public policy in fact they seem clearly designed to accomplish the opposite jsh mark steve hendricks domain steveh thor isc br com one thing about data it sure does cut uucp uunet isc br thor steveh the bulls t r hofferbert ma bell
