At the request of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, ILSR’s Co-Director Stacy Mitchell provided a comment letter outlining ILSR’s views on the state of antitrust law and making six recommendations for Congressional action.
In her letter, Mitchell explains that our antitrust laws, as written, are strong, but that decades of poor jurisprudence and anemic enforcement have left small businesses at a severe disadvantage and surrender large swathes of our economy to big corporations such as Amazon. Her letter advocates for Congress to reaffirm the purpose of our antitrust laws — to protect competition through legislation. Click the thumbnail to read the testimony.
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