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What in the world do they do that means anything politically. Just sell your phones, idgets.

Unfortunately, with the depth of governmental intrusion and picking of winners and losers, companies are forced to participate. It is with regularity that bills and regulations slant the playing field dramatically, as well as create cutouts - which even if you are not getting one can dramatically shift your market share.

Take into account the “Net Neutrality” regulations, or the approval needed to just complete a merger.

I guess I didn’t do a good enough job saying my point. The government has little or no business delving into the areas you are talking about in your entry. As long as they are dabbling in business that has nothing to do with them, they are not the fix, but continuing, like Ron Reagan said, to be part of the problem. They are not there to regulate business as that’s why we have so many problems now.

So if they shouldn’t be there, why do the companies the size of AT%T need to delve back? Leave the, maybe, free market alone and it will prosper. Have the government regulate it and it will be hamstrung and fail. Many states in that situation are finding that out as they go bankrupt.

According to the latest ranking of states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the most fiscally sound states in the nation are all low-tax, GOP strongholds, while the 10 least-solvent states are almost all high-tax and heavily Democratic. Dem states are controlled by high taxes and restricted actions. And that’s the problem.

rwood