
Elizabeth Warren's shocking Spirit folly will hurt all air travelers
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Elizabeth Warren's shocking Spirit folly will hurt all air travelers. Democrats embrace antitrust attack on JetBlue merger, return to ‘big is bad’ strategy.
Today, we are witnessing this same antitrust folly repeating itself, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, attacking the proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, and now, Attorney General Merrick Garland filing a lawsuit to stop the proposed business deal. Former Rep. Bob Barr was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia from 1995 to 2003. He is now president of the Law Enforcement Education Foundation.
In the 1960s, government antitrust lawyers at the Department of Justice targeted IBM. "Big Blue" was sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act, with the feds claiming it attempted to monopolize the market for "general-purpose digital computers."