Can you name some legislation that was enacted at the behest of a corp looking to stifle

[Tod]

Can you name some legislation that was enacted at the behest of a corporation looking to stifle competition? What was the legislation, what was the company that requested it, and, if they had particular competition in mind, who were they?

[Acala]

Can you name some legislation that was enacted at the behest of a corporation looking to stifle competition? What was the legislation, what was the company that requested it, and, if they had particular competition in mind, who were they?

Just off the top of my head,

The ban on incandescent lightbulbs.
The ban on red rice yeast
the ban on importation of small stationary diesel engines
the ban on tryptophan
Everything the FDA does
All business and professional licensing laws

I'm not going to try and find out the lobbying history. You can do the research yourself.

[pcosmar]

Prohibition of Hemp.

It was competition to both Paper and Cotton industries.
A leading Media Mogul owned the patent for wood pulp paper.

[Krugerrand]

Just off the top of my head,

The ban on incandescent lightbulbs.
The ban on red rice yeast
the ban on importation of small stationary diesel engines
the ban on tryptophan
Everything the FDA does
All business and professional licensing laws

I'm not going to try and find out the lobbying history. You can do the research yourself.

Lots of hatin' towards alternative medicine these days.

[dannno]

Almost every piece of legislation in existence.

Are you arguing with someone about this? Do they not agree that big lobby firms from big banks and corporations run D.C.?

[Rothbardian Girl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_act
The entire New Deal
If we include banks... the Federal Reserve Act

As dannno said, pretty much every piece of legislation falls under this category somehow.

[BattleFlag1776]

TARP.
For: US Banking Cartel
Against: Real Estate Developers/Investors that buy on the downside of boom/bust periods as that same cartel liquidates assets to remove debt from their books.

[kah13176]

The Jones' Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

Supports: Huge companies who can afford to comply with it.

Against: Smaller companies who can't afford to comply with it.

This act is the reason why cruise ships are mandated, by law, to visit a foreign port before returning to their home port in the US.

[jason43]

Almost every piece of legislation in existence.


Exactly. They pass legislation after something bad happens, but the people that write the legislation are the lobbyists of the big companies being regulated. Its a total scam.

[Feeding the Abscess]

Just off the top of my head,

The ban on incandescent lightbulbs.
The ban on red rice yeast
the ban on importation of small stationary diesel engines
the ban on tryptophan
Everything the FDA does
All business and professional licensing laws

I'm not going to try and find out the lobbying history. You can do the research yourself.

The red rice yeast ban finally went through? I'm out of the supplement industry these days; when did it pass?

[CaptainAmerica]

auto manufacturer safety regulations
auto manufacturer carbon emissions regulations
the federal income tax and the tax code(stifles mom and pop shops)
civil rights act of 1964 (stifles mom and pop shops)

[pcosmar]

Freon Ban.
Enacted when the patent ran out on Freon and anyone could produce it.

[Brian4Liberty]

Dodd-Frank.

[Tod]

Almost every piece of legislation in existence.

Are you arguing with someone about this? Do they not agree that big lobby firms from big banks and corporations run D.C.?

No, not yet, at least not in general. :D But I figure I better have some sized repertoire of good specific examples beyond Perry's Gardasil scandal....

Thanks, everybody....I'll do a bit of research on the scraps you've tossed me!

[Pizzo]

Cash for Clunkers as well.

[angelatc]

Can you name some legislation that was enacted at the behest of a corporation looking to stifle competition? What was the legislation, what was the company that requested it, and, if they had particular competition in mind, who were they?

You know the $800 in platinum that sits at your curb every night? (In your catalytic converters?) When the EPA decided to limit pollutants, one of the auto makers ( I think it was GM) lobbied for them to specify that particular system had to be used to accomplish the goal for two reasons: GM owned the patent on that system, and Toyota had another system that accomplished the same thing for less money.

[acptulsa]

There was a food handling bill passed about a year and a half ago, not long after Obama got into office and shortly after salmonella was found in peanut butter, which was largely written by Vilsack's USDA and a great benefit to Monsanto.

[donnay]

There was a food handling bill passed about a year and a half ago, not long after Obama got into office and shortly after salmonella was found in peanut butter, which was largely written by Vilsack's USDA and a great benefit to Monsanto.

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html#ix zz1c84S7R2Y

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS! Codex Compliance!

This bill is to come after the small farms and ranches. Shut down Farmers Markets. Not to go after Big Agra or Big pHarma!

[FunkBuddha]

Fire safe cigarrettes.This was pushed by RJR and Phillip Morris.

[PierzStyx]

Also the internation sugar imports quota.

[Natural Citizen]

Please update this thread with any recent skullduggery.

[better-dead-than-fed]

Can you name some legislation that was enacted at the behest of a corporation looking to stifle competition? What was the legislation, what was the company that requested it, and, if they had particular competition in mind, who were they?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behest:


Definition of BEHEST

1: an authoritative order : command
2: an urgent prompting <called at the behest of my friends>

No legislation has been enacted by corporations, or on their command. Legislation is enacted by government employees, not by corporations. Corporation employees have the First-Amendment right to free speech, including the right to draft legislation and to urge government employees to enact it.

Many legislators are for sale, but they would sooner do business with an unincorporated billionaire than a corporation with no money and one employee who functions as everything from CEO to janitor.

[enoch150]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behest:



No legislation has been enacted by corporations, or on their command. Legislation is enacted by government employees, not by corporations. Corporation employees have the First-Amendment right to free speech, including the right to draft legislation and to urge government employees to enact it.

Many legislators are for sale, but they would sooner do business with an unincorporated billionaire than a corporation with no money and one employee who functions as everything from CEO to janitor.

Not at a command, but the second definition fits. An urgent prompting.

To answer the OP's question, the federal government and 35 states require anyone who wants to open a new medical facilities to obtain a Certificate of Need before constructing it. The express purpose of requiring a Certificate of Need is restricting competition. The bizarro world explanation for this is that to much competition would result in higher prices.

No joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

Reason #59490 why medical costs are so outrageous.

You could also point to medallions issued to taxi drivers. They serve no other purpose other than limiting the number of taxi drivers in a city.

[luctor-et-emergo]

FAP, also known as the 'Monsanto Protection Act'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_Assurance_Provision

[AFPVet]

The federal government is the ultimate monopoly. They starve off the lower competitors... only the larger monopolies survive.

[better-dead-than-fed]

but the second definition fits. An urgent prompting.

Agreed. There are cases where corporations urge lawmakers to enact bad legislation, and no doubt cases where corporations outright bribe lawmakers to do it. The ability to pay bribes, though, comes from wealth itself. Being a corporation is not the same thing as being wealthy. I don't understand why this thread was framed in terms of "corporations", as if politicians taking bribes from unincorporated entities (e.g., sole proprietorships, partnerships, and LLC's) is any better? This seems important to me, but I realize I am outnumbered and the vilification of corporations will continue.