http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/afp-astroturf/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/afp-astroturf/comment-page-1/#comment-2674 Vanessa Williamson Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:35 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/afp-astroturf/#comment-2674 That's crazy. Everyone knows free markets can have negative externalities. But even if you were to accept the extreme view that there is no such thing as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure" rel="nofollow">market failure</a>, effective "free markets" actually require a lot of things that would look like regulation to the rest of us -- including everything from things like access to information (ie, ensuring that consumers can know what they are buying) to the rule of law. You know, the stuff these guys have been undercutting from the day they got into office. That’s crazy. Everyone knows free markets can have negative externalities. But even if you were to accept the extreme view that there is no such thing as market failure, effective “free markets” actually require a lot of things that would look like regulation to the rest of us — including everything from things like access to information (ie, ensuring that consumers can know what they are buying) to the rule of law. You know, the stuff these guys have been undercutting from the day they got into office.

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