EGALITARIANS' DILEMMA. Cheap generic prescription drugs at Wal-Mart. King Baniaian notes that in Narod'nii Respublikh Minnesooooohta, the big discounters are subject to a Depression era minimum mark-up law passed to protect sole proprietorship retailers from the big box bad guys of that era, namely A&P and Sears.

Imagine the following: You go to Target with your prescription and they charge you $4 for the drug plus a $5 tax to be paid to the pharmacist in North Soytown. Would you scream injustice? Now suppose you go to Target with your prescription and they charge you $9, going all to them. Who do you scream at now? The only reason they never do the first is because you would complain -- if you wouldn't, they would gladly have the money go to the local pharmacist rather than Arkansas-based WalMart.

"Protecting competitors is not equivalent to protecting competition." True, false, or debatable? Credit for your explanation.