Can Government Regulations Improve Competition?

Simple ideological question. Can government regulations create more competition?

 

no, they help eliminate it for their corporatist buddies.

 

So...government regulation helps large corporations?

 

I can't believe that anyone even with a nanogram of a brain thinks that the LIEberhoidal puke:) and/or Owebamarrhoidal puke:) Idiots aren't anything but DISASTROUS for America !

 

Are you in the wrong thread? This post was completely off topic.

 

It depends. During the late 19th century, early 20th century, government regulations did create more competition. Nowadays, we have exorbitant or redundant regulations in all directions.

 

Answered in one post. Progressives seem to know that corporations own the government, but don't correlate that with the fact that they write regulations to favor their partners, along with the subsidies and bailouts.

Who is allowed to build the power plants?

 

Yes. They can stop all the corporations from transferring our country's wealth overseas.

 

Can they? Yeah, sure. It depends on the regulation.

 

We established a system with doom built in. Think about it. Congress passes a law...it goes to 'regulators' whose pay check and sole reason for existing is writing regulation. They take the legislation and write 'regulations' to meet the Congress's legislation. Once that is done the regulators do not go away...they continue to write regulations, and write and write. The regulations go from doing what Congress and the people wanted to dong what is necessary to keep the regulators employed...they go from doing what is arguably good for the nation to what is simply silly to what is destructive. We end up with silliness like the NLRB decision on Boeing, bad for the nation....and they are still writing.

In my view the regulators should have a limited time to write on any issue and all regulation should be up for review every decade or so so as to insure really stupid or destructive stuff does not pollute the law.

 

Usually. Remember the AT&T or "Bell system" monopoly? The AT&T monopoly survived until the 1980s because of federal and state government actions. Thank you BIG GOVERNMENT!

 

By regulating rigging promoted by monopolistic corporations. And any corporation TOO BIG to fail... should not exist.

All of that CAN be regulated. And if we went that way (again) there would likely be more robust competition overall.

 

Question too vague and simple.

 

Okay, what should the question(s) be?

 

Yes. Regulation can help block out competition my making it exceedingly expensive to compete. A recent example I can think of is the New York Cab Medallion. This is an entirely government created monopoly that has created a strange market when simply getting the license to drive a cab can cost 1 million dollars. Your local cable company is another example where government utilities are leased to a corporation, completely blocking competition. The FCC also blocked a company from providing free nation wide wifi. Next time you see regulation look for the corporate backing.

 

A discussion of types of regulation. Anti-trust/etc.

It's like asking "are guns bad"?

 

Can "all" regulations create competition? Obviously not. It is the nature of regulations to become outdated or irrelevant, or worse, become the tool of special interest. Sure, you can point out a ton of regulations that are negative to good business (notice I said "good"). But the vast majority of regulations are good common sense applications to issues. I like the idea of knowing that truckloads are safely not overweight and that the drivers have extensive testing. I like the idea that the tires on my car must pass minimum saftey requirements. I like the idea that all government employees are audited for performance regulary, and I like the idea that my doctor is licensed. Picking out the obvious bad regulations and pretending that they are the norm is guilding the lilly. We should have a scheduled program where all regulations are audited for effectiveness and reviewed by non-partisan unlobbied officials who can alter or eliminate them. However, if you are looking for a perfect solution you will have to leave the human race for there will always be a few bad regulations.

 

This was by design.

 

Let's see. Government regulation to improve competetion. That would be called licensing wouldn't it? YOu know, where the only ones allowed to compete are the ones who can afford to make large campaign contributions.

I know it's hard to accept with the government's long and respected record at making improvements.

 

Exactly, .........how do they think "big business" runs the country ?
This seems to be a favorite political talking point, but how in the world can a public official help your company if not through regulation ?

 

This is the problem with you people. You are hell bent and determined on doing everything by force. Try giving companies some acutal incentive to keep their business here. The only reason they go overseas in the first place is because of all the restrictive regulations you put on them here.

 

Can't really give a yes or no answer on this one. Some government regulations are necessary ,but over/under regulation can hurt the economy and the country.

 

Then you answered with a yes.

This was simply an exercise to see how many conservatives would admit that there are some good regulations and that not everything the government does is automatically bad.

The question was can regulations do good. The answer is yes. If the question was can regulations do bad the answer would also be yes. More often than not though regulations are put in place for a very good reason. Glass Steagal for example.

 

If the regulations pertain to enforcing contracts and not to micromanaging the Economy than it will work. The question itself is way too vague because Government Regulations falls under Contract enforcements as well as all of the other junk such as the EPA & Monetary Policy etc etc. So I'm not going to vote in something that accepts Anarchy or Sci-Fi movie Authoritarian Space Dictatorship for an answer imo. Also considering contract enforcement could be done with an outside group that isn't the Government the answer is a Yes, No & Maybe... Plus at the same time Governments who are responsible to insure contracts are enforced could just as easily be bribed not to.

 

Can Government Regulations Improve Competition?

.......Crony Competition....Yes. When government determines the winners and losers, rather than the Free Market, Cronyism is always the end result.

You can stretch and call it Competition, but you cant call it Improvement......
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