Reply To: Why is MK Litzman supporting a monopoly?

Joseph,
I said I find it hard to believe the torah would support an economic system invented by a self-hating Jew, which has proven to cause untold anguish that we pray every day will be removed with the return of our true judges and hashems law. No bet din would pasken that no one may compete with a certain business that has become a monopoly such as here. If sha’are zeddek (or any one who wants to open a hospital) and haddassah would come for a din torah no dayan has any source I’m aware of to rule against competition, (including hasagas gvul which is very limited to a case where one is practically stealing another’s clients.) Have you never seen two Jewish shops competing? It’s probably going to be quite hard to find an explicit halachah against monopolies (where are the coffee room beki’im?) however there are many instances where the torah encourages competition. But the point is, in a din torah if there is no source against competition the dayan has no right to rule against the competitor and will in fact cause customers to suffer. The torah favors neither rich nor poor, unlike some modern ideas of justice.