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Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices by rat87 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @06:45PM (#42446690)
The politicians on the supreme court and while the case was pretty recent the move to limit it dates back a long time before that

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...

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Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices by specialist on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @01:46PM (#42453504)
Yes and:

Two (of many, many) books which detail two separate efforts to dismantle our administrative state are:

Lobbying America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691168016 the history of how Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce, et al reacted to The New Deal by transitioning from trade groups to political players.

Democracy in Chains https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stea... shares (Nobel winning economist) James McGill Buchanan's role in bootstrapping the Southern flavored conservative movement (libertarian "free enterprise" segregationists reacting to Civil Rights Era and The Great Society).

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