{"id":44877,"date":"2014-09-03T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-myth-of-free-enterprise-car-dealership-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:47:46","slug":"the-myth-of-free-enterprise-car-dealership-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-myth-of-free-enterprise-car-dealership-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Free Enterprise (Car Dealership Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that any political party is at all clean in these kind of sweetheart deal shenanigans, but any pol who praises free enterprise on the one hand and on the other restricts the market to favor the existing model and incumbents like this ought to turn in his or her membership in the Adam Smith Club.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/motoramic\/georgia-dealers-want-tesla-store-shuttered-for-selling-too-many-teslas-192235038.html'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/KLyOAMO0KPpc7dfX0zgBbiJD7Fb0NV-RvKcz-8gmPrPU0FKYRHPyxTk8eXaEUUzw26WsAp1Dbb3BNMDZjf0ni7qsrcaMPfkQwtLsRzh0sicjVmMGTA6K-C36FLfQ2X3CgswmEC4=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\nGeorgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nImagine owning the most popular automaker in the United States. Now imagine a special \u200binterest group eliminating your ability to serve over 10 million Americans unless you did business with their unique cartel. That&#8217;s in essence what happened right before Labor Day weekend, when the Georgia Auto Dealer Association filed a petition with state officials seeking to cancel Tesla&#8217;s right to sell its cars in the state of Georgia.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GVggStcN6hh'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that any political party is at all clean in these kind of sweetheart deal shenanigans, but any pol who praises free enterprise on the one hand and on the other restricts the market to favor the existing model and incumbents like this ought to turn in his or her membership in the Adam Smith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-myth-of-free-enterprise-car-dealership-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Myth of Free Enterprise (Car Dealership Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,5,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-cars","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3670,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/09\/free_mickey.html","url_meta":{"origin":44877,"position":0},"title":"Free Mickey!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Oct-02 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am a believer in free enterprise. 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