Because the term "free market" doesn't mean "unregulated market." It means "market with regulations which keep barriers to entry low." The twisting of the term "free market" to mean "laissez-faire market" is one of the nifty tricks that corporatists have done over the past 150 years or so.
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Date: 2012-01-09 05:06 pm (UTC)