# A question about business regulation for my fellow Republicans

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 25, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-business-regulation-for-my-fellow-republicans/226055 "2004-01-25T22:59:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-business-regulation-for-my-fellow-republicans/226055/21 "2004-02-01T23:22:18Z")

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> [@erislover](#):
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> Seeing as it is one of, if not the, largest consumer in the market, it has quite a bit to do with it besides just enforcing regulations.

Possibly. In some markets. But regulations do not constitute participation in the market in this sense. And I would point out (unless my memory of the numbers is old) that the government taken as a whole is not as large a participane in the market as the rest of us. At least not here in America. They may be the single biggest consumer of certain products. But the nongovernmental markets are much larger than the government.

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