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> It's not a math equation you run through a computer and get a legal result out the other end.

Not really. This has zero to do with math. At all. We have a buyer and we have a seller, both the buyer and the seller wish to perform a transaction, but then we have a regulator which arbitrarily wants to force them not to execute said transaction because of reasons.

And my question is terribly simple: to those who want to force someone like me from buying what I like from a seller I chose but they arbitrarily reject, how exactly do they wish to force me from buying what I'd like from who I chose to buy from?

No math, no numbers. I'm asking a very simple question: what then?




> No math, no numbers. I’m asking a very simple question: what then?

The comment you replied to answered your question. The transaction goes through, absolutely no additional regulation or control comes into play at the transaction level.

NOTE: I am not supporting this position, or opposing it. I’m just stating what the gp post said.


> The comment you replied to answered your question.

It really didn't, instead it weaseled out by putting up a strawman that pretends to put a loophole in a straight-forward and very clear way.

In fact, it's blatantly clear by itself the fact that no one proposed a single idea or suggestion about how to enforce that mysterious 10%. No explanation was given on the impact on customers, and how the sellers would be forced to not go beyond that 10%. Why is that? Is the idea undefendable?




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