{"id":349,"date":"2012-01-22T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-01-22T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T06:30:08","slug":"who-really-lobbies-for-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/22\/who-really-lobbies-for-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Who REALLY lobbies for regulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hint: it’s not the “socialists” …
\nHere are three examples of big business lobbying for regulation to the detriment of small business:<\/p>\n

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  1. Big publishers in mid-90s pushing to extend the length of copyrights and gut the idea of fair-use; this pretty much stifled the growth of upstart Kinko’s and their production of course packets. In addition, it removed a lot of material from the public domain, material that could’ve been used to spur further innovation and creativity.<\/li>\n
  2. Big Ag (Monsanto, Conagra, et al) lobbied for regulations that would allow them to patent genomes, thus creating a market for GMOs that would further undercut small farmers who were already under duress …<\/li>\n
  3. Pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have the patent period \u00a0extended to 17 years in order to stifle drug development by small bio-chem firms that were popping up everywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In addition, corporate welfare in the form of tax incentives to big-box stores like Target, Walmart, Sears and Cabela’s give large competitive advantages to big businesses over extant and potential small businesses.
    \nThe problem isn’t too much or too little regulation; it’s misapplied regulation. Putting the wrong regulations in place just end up having, from the naive lawmaker’s and citizen’s perspective at least, unintended consequences that are detrimental to small business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hint: it’s not the “socialists” … Here are three examples of big business lobbying for regulation to the detriment of small business: Big publishers in mid-90s pushing to extend the length of copyrights and gut the idea of fair-use; this pretty much stifled the growth of upstart Kinko’s and their production of course packets. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economic-policy","7":"category-featured","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rick S.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/author\/rick\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbackcafe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}