Politicians Helped Kill Amazon's Roomba Deal

You're describing multiple companies coalescing into fewer companies. How does that do anything to increase competition?

> An example is the proposed grocery merger of Kroger (#4) and Albertsons (#9)

I want the merger to fail precisely because it seriously reduces competition in my area. If this goes through, then very nearly all grocery stores (and literally all of the major grocery stores) around me would be Kroger, and I very strongly want to avoid having to do business with Kroger.

Speaking as someone who is probably to the left of, say, you in specific, I'm a fan of competition where it makes sense: businesses that are easily replaceable and political candidates, and not where it doesn't make sense: utilities and public schools.

Even if privately-run charters issue a certain number of needs-based scholarships or give preference to minorities or lower-income students by reserving a certain number of slots in a lottery-based system, these private charters will over time return us to a world where by and large only the economically privileged are educated.