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    Corporate-Government Price Collusion Exposed

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    Uncover how corporations and government work together to manipulate prices, costing Americans hundreds annually through coordinated schemes that transcend traditional politics.

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    The very regulations that are supposed to protect us from monopolies are actually creating them. A two million dollar compliance burden represents 0.2 percent of revenue for a billion-dollar company, but twenty percent for a ten million dollar startup, effectively functioning as a tax on smaller competitors.

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    I wanna talk about this crazy price gouging that’s going on from big government and unregulated corporations that get to do whatever the hell they wanna do and it’s not necessarily a republican Democrat thing. It’s basically just big government and Corporate collision.

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    When Regulations Create the Monsters They're Meant to Stop

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    The Price-Fixing Epidemic Hiding in Plain Sight

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