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Why Federal Law? Wouldn't it make sense to try it at the local level and see it's effects before pushing it to the national?
by dantheman 16y ago
Why Federal Law? Wouldn't it make sense to try it at the local level and see it's effects before pushing it to the national?
- rphillips 16y agoThe local level is a good place to start; however, I believe the problem is more rampant. Google, Apple, and Pixar are mostly California companies. Google and Apple do have offices here in Texas where I work, and their policies were in affect here too. So the problem crosses state boundaries, which would need a Federal fix.
- scott_s 16y agoFederal law is needed for something that crosses state boundaries. This kind of collusion between big players is likely to cross state boundaries. Let's put it the other way: why do you think what works on a smaller scale (local companies) will necessarily tell us how it will work on a national scale (large national companies)?
- hga 16y agoThis has long been recognized as a problem: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II And therefore it's long been a part of US Federal anti-trust law and case law. Modern Republican administrations in particular have tended to focus their attention on these type of price fixing cases.