“With gleeful smiles on their faces, Justice Department lawyers posed for photographers after Federal Judge Thomas Jackson’s ruling against Microsoft. The judge bought Justice’s arguments that Microsoft is a “monopoly” because it has grown too big in the process of satisfying consumer wants. What nonsense! The prosecution and persecution of Microsoft reflects the same mindset that guides the welfare state: statists, and especially bureaucratic ones, hate it when someone is richer and more successful than they. After all, if statists really hated monopolies, they would have, long ago, ended one of the biggest and most abusive: the postal monopoly.”
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Monopoly Mindset”
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