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Originally Posted by minicivan
To use your analogy, you are afraid the US Government is going to pass a law requiring all alcohol producers and distributors to give up their rights and come under the umbrella of one single private company (which has no legal authority to do anything) and that company will then start dictating the terms of how alcohol is processed, distributed, sold and possibly consumed. Thats not the same as voting to make it illegal.
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Governments around the world have already done things like that for hundreds of years... Central banking: the governments gives (sells) a charter to a private company. Prostitution: in some cities prostitutes are only allowed to work in certain area's or in certain buildings (in Antwerp, Belgium, they even have a kind of prostitution shopping mall). Alcohol, in lots of countries alcohol can only be sold in certain hotels, but not in stores. Porn magazines.... etc etc etc