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The actual problem here, as it is with some many parts of our economy, is consolidation and monopoly.

One company, Abbott, controls about half the country’s supply, and has a stranglehold on distribution:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formu...

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I wish more people would wake up to the impact that monopolies have on their economic and wellbeing security.

Legalizing imports would break, or at least put strong pressure on, such a monopoly.

Maybe. Or maybe we’d then be subject to a bigger more international monopoly.

These two issues are loosely related at best.

So you're claiming there is an international monopoly controlling the world formula market? And they would crush or assimilate Abbot when the borders opened?

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