If a monopoly gains power, you’ll get those gas prices… for a bit. As they control industries, they can increase the prices as they please, and then as the government does nothing, it replaces the government and becomes just as tyrannical as people thought that government was. Unless companies are democratically controlled, or regulated, the government is our only option to hold back monopolies and corporate power.
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When was the last time you heard a conservative calling for a gasoline monopoly? Are you just putting those words in conservatives mouths, fallaciously contrasting a Straw Man Argument & attacking a position conservatives never professed to hold again? That's sure what it seems like. Get real here, Trump never called for monopolies.
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But he allows them. He does, he will, don’t deny that. When government restriction dies, monopolies grow. It’s not something we can stop unless we regulate it, or the people do so by controlling the corporations themselves. If you advocate for the destruction of corporate regulation, then they will become monopolies. The people alone aren’t strong enough to hold back a monopoly, that’s been long since proven. You may not call for monopolies, but you make the so much easier to allow.
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Can you provide an example of Trump allowing a gasoline monopoly, or are you pulling this out of your butt?
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I did not say a gas monopoly, and I was referring to monopolies as a whole, I just used your gasoline example as an opening statement for my opinion. Trump however did assist and allow large market mergers to further consolidate power, especially in the tech industry. A politician who allows monopolies doesn’t do so simply by advocating for a single company, what they do instead is they hand those companies more money, strengthen the oil incentives pipelines, and assist in or do nothing about large mergers, such as Sprint or T-Mobile. If a president openly supported monopolies, he&rsquo… Read more
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Apparently your definition of monopoly is "big business." My definition of monopoly is "permanent, 100% control of a given industry." Hope that cleared things up.
