Deregulation of the airlines, railways, trucking, energy and telecommunications industries have all provided significant benefits to consumers and the economy as a whole. These efforts all had some degree of bipartisan support.
This section of the Platform focuses on two areas of the Regulation/Deregulation debate: 1) Regulation and the Financial Markets and 2) Regulation and Consumer Protection. We recognize that regulation is a much broader topic but these two issues are the most controversial ones at the moment.