Matt Blunt Attacks Small Business by Removing Handicaps on Large Companies

Blunt signs law on competition in phone industry:

Large telephone companies gained new ways to respond to growing competition with a measure Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law Thursday.

The law deals with how quickly a company such as SBC Communications Inc. can change features and prices of service packages in response to competing offers.

Smaller telephone companies that vie for customers against telecommunications giants such as SBC had opposed the change, saying it could reverse competitive momentum that has been growing. Consumers eventually could see higher phone bills, according to Show Me Competition, a coalition of competing telecommunications companies.

We at DMB2008 laud the governor for his stance that laws should apply equally to all businesses, large and small. As we try to wrap our minds around the concept of a coalition of competing telecommunication companies, we demean any legislation predicated on the eventually could argument.