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10 hours ago, Landlord said:

Big businesses want regulations to choke out competition. ie, they only want regulations when there is competition. If they have monopolized a market, then they'll fight to get rid of every regulation possible. 

 

There is no such thing as "regulations = good" or "regulations = bad" across the board. And often the attempts in one way or the other can have unintended consequences and backfire to certain extents. But it's a damn important area to be mindful in and dedicated to good policy on.

This makes sense to me - nothing I found suggested that they work to regulate less as a general rule.

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Interesting study shows how deep the divide is 

 

https://www.studyfinds.org/stimulus-check-voters-agree/

 

 

 

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While stunning talk of secession from states like Texas and other Republican leaning areas may sound like a radical idea, the survey finds many Democrat voters actually support breaking up the U.S. as well.

“Until recently, we would have regarded it as too marginal to include in a survey. But state legislators in Mississippi and Texas and state GOP leaders in Texas and Wyoming have openly advocated secession in recent months, prompting us to design two survey items to gauge perceptions of this idea,” the researchers say.

The survey finds the political divide in America has gotten so bad 29 percent of voters would entertain the idea of spitting the country into smaller regions. One in three Republican respondents support their state seceding from the union.

Overall, just 21 percent of Democratic voters also support secession however, the idea is even more popular on the left in areas where Democrats hold power. The pollsters caution that these results come from the gut reaction of voters in the survey. Since voters did not have the ability to look carefully into the consequences of breaking the U.S. into five hypothetical regions, they urge the public to take their findings with a grain of salt.

 

 

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