[boredguy8]

If you can't see why that makes sense, I'm concerned for you. You may disagree that it's the right approach, but to say it's not sensible strains credulity. (As to the idea that individual contractors were well-enough connected with each other to guard against the manufacturer's ability to screw them seems unlikely in 1930...but your foray into anarcho-syndicalism hardly seems the point of this thread, aye?)

[icebraining]

They weren't individual contractors, they were wealthy dealership owners, and the proof that they were well connected in their local communities is the effectiveness of their lobby, which created these restrictions in the first place.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/06/munger_on_franc.htm...