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<Airline deregulation>

<Airline deregulation>

As the above example illustrates, the free market has the effect of giving great wealth to the poor.  Someone can have no money, or lose all his money, and yet if he tries then he can live nearly as well as the wealthiest man in the nation -- '''''if''''' the free market exists to drive down prices and provide equal opportunity.  The poor can enjoy the public parks and cheap land in rural areas rather than be confined in the traffic-congested and polluted cities where most of the rich are.  The poor can benefit from the low prices for food and travel caused by the free market.  But if the free market does not exist -- as in many countries of the world -- then the poor may go hungry and otherwise suffer, because prices are too high and opportunities are too limited for him to do as well.

As the above example illustrates, the free market has the effect of giving great wealth to the poor.  Someone can have no money, or lose all his money, and yet if he tries then he can live nearly as well as the wealthiest man in the nation -- '''''if''''' the free market exists to drive down prices and provide equal opportunity.  The poor can enjoy the public parks and cheap land in rural areas rather than be confined in the traffic-congested and polluted cities where most of the rich are.  The poor can benefit from the low prices for food and travel caused by the free market.  But if the free market does not exist -- as in many countries of the world -- then the poor may go hungry and otherwise suffer, because prices are too high and opportunities are too limited for him to do as well.  One of the best ways to help the poor is to provide them with the free market in order to lower prices and increase opportunities for them.

<free market and politics and campaign finance>

The free market can have an enormously beneficial effect on politics also.  In the United States, there is a system of "checks and balances" against tyranny:  the three branches of the federal government, Congress, the presidency, and the courts, check and limit the power of each other.  Also, the state governments and the people themselves (as through town hall meetings and free speech) check and limit the power of all three branches of the federal government.  But the free market may be the most powerful check on tyranny of all.  Government cannot easily control and limit what the free market supplies and demands -- as the example of the Tyndale Bible illustrated.

== What is Irrelevant to Supply and Demand? ==

== What is Irrelevant to Supply and Demand? ==