Re: Microsoft just fined US$ 1.35 billion by European antitrust regulator

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place57 <place57@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mobil loses a tax break, the price of oil goes up, the politicians
blame the increase in price on the "evil oil company" and they tax
them even more, which causes the lazy ignorant people to cheer for joy
as their politicians "stuck it to big oil". Then the price goes up,
and the politicians blame big oil, which... You get the picture.

Not quite. You mean big companies are inviolable, punishing them
for anything is punishing ourselves? Are you not forgetting that
if their prices become painful to us, other smaller companies are
thereby empowered?

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