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by JoshTriplett 3891 days ago
> Car dealers are among the biggest "small business owner" donors to political campaigns in the US. The National Auto Dealers Association is a big part of most dealers' lives, and they know who is buttering their bread.

Which makes me wonder how much it would change the US political landscape to eliminate the massive protections granted to car dealerships.
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grandalf 3891 days ago
> eliminate the massive protections

It would certainly change things a lot, but it would have to happen through the same democratic process that put the protections there in the first place.

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fineman 3891 days ago
That never works. You'd need those who benefit from the protectionism to stop lobbying. The issue is that it never was democratic, it was graft that made these regulations and it's graft that keeps them going.

The way to get rid of regulatory capture is to make it impossible to enforce and let the leeches die.

Uber may not win, but Taxi companies will die.

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