[jjotto]

Big corporations use government regulation and taxation to force out competitors and prevent new ones. Highly capitalized entities can absorb the cost and pass it along to existing customers. Weaker competitors are forced out of business.

[cripplecreek]

Big corporations use government regulation and taxation to force out competitors and prevent new ones.

In Michigan, casinos lobbied for the smoking ban in bars yet they themselves got an exemption from the law by virtue of being large enough to create separate smoking areas of a certain regulated size.

Little bars of 1500 square feet can't create a smoking area of several thousand square feet.