[identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com 2013-01-29 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And of course doing this without regard for the immense numbers of problems this creates. De-regulation is one of those libertarian talking poins that's utterly worthless in a real world context. Like the Command Economy, the Free Market never has existed in pure and unalloyed form and it never will.

[identity profile] brother-dour.livejournal.com 2013-02-03 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to mention, the Tea Party types only favor deregulation and other 'free market capitalism' ideas when it benefits businesses, but never when the same policies benefit consumers.