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Mike Lee: “An alliance between big government and big business uses the…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Senate Hearing on Antitrust Enforcement and Occupational Licensing with Mike Lee and Mark Meador

Published | Video Starts at 01:40

Right, and that's, that's often true, especially if what's being broken up is being broken up because it's anti competitive rather than because it's big simply as such or for some other reason. Mr. Alford, your testimony describes An alliance between big government and big business uses the rulemaking process to place barriers to entry into [the] marketplace. In other words, it's one thing if regulations have the incidental effect of creating a moat, an anti competitive moat around market incumbents. (01:40–01:50)

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Asserts that government and business collude to create market entry barriers through regulations.

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