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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><b>Your examples are interesting. Brothels are illegal, so a straw man argument. </b></div></blockquote>
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<div>You can't get out of that point that easily! A change in the law in Idaho, and brothels could be legal. Why limit the "free marketplace?" Regulated brothels might be safer for all, with mandated testing for STDs, etc. Brothels exist anyway in Idaho, no doubt because they make money and have an eager customer base, so will you come out against the "protectionism" of laws against brothels?
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<div>A change in Moscow's regulations limiting the size at which a retailer can build (sq. ft. of the building(s) at a given site) would render a Wal-Mart Supercenter thus "illegal." Then your championing of the Wal-Mart Supercenter would become a "straw man issue" because it would be "illegal" to construct. Somehow I think you would still be arguing that the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter was blocked unwisely.
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<div>I wonder, do you support anti-trust law of any kind? Under what circumstances? When US corporations violate environmental, labor or human rights laws in other nations, laws that are widely accepted in the democratic world, to allow them to out compete business competitors, should any government regulation be imposed to stop such conduct?
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<div>Ted Moffett </div>
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