Comment Pull up the drawbridge! (Score 5, Insightful) 64
We want to corner the market and erect barriers to entry for competitors. We will pay for a government to do that for us.
Straight out of the healthcare, legal and other industries' playbook.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken