Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
I was not suggesting that we drop politicians. My point was that their reach should be high level and limited. In the article posted for example, should politicians really be involved in how much limousine companies can charge? They cannot possibly be expected to be experts on the premium transportation industry, so they have to rely on someone to tell them how to write the law. When politicians attempt to regulate at such a low level, distortion and corruption follow.
They should have the option, since sometimes very detailed regulation is needed. But that kind of regulation isn't supposed to be tailor made for cooperate welfare. In those cases, it's the media and people's duty to strike down politicians that are making obviously corrupted laws. It's the power regulator the weak has against the strong going all chummy with eachother.

Simply moving up the politicians doesn't need to help, then the same lobbying would be used to make the politicians ignore already existing laws. Shouldn't existing Federal antitrust laws strike these laws down already?