The latest example of bipartisan collaboration actually being bad for the public comes courtesy of Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Josh Hawley. They are pushing new antitrust legislation to break up, regulate, or restructure businesses. They are specifically targeting Big Tech platforms, including Amazon.
This week, something of an intra-GOP debate has broken out as free-market, limited government Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul have spoken out against GOP support for this Democratic, big-government policy approach. “These [antitrust] proposals to ostensibly cut the tech giants down to size would, instead, perpetuate the dominant position of these companies and deprive consumers of the technological innovation that only free-market competition can provide,” Paul said. “Rather than pursue even stronger antitrust laws, Congress should allow the free market to thrive where consumers, not the government, decide how big a company should be.”
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