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The country's 70 financial institutions, all state controlled, have been lending heavily to state-owned enterprises; some are exporters, but many are engaged more in domestic activities like real estate development and infrastructure.
Ocean waters are state controlled.
The state controls the subways.
The state controls more prices.
Each state controls its own rules.
State-controlled infrastructure isn't always safe or reliable either – earlier this year, for example, the internet was effectively switched off in Iraq to prevent teenagers from cheating on their exams, and the internet is widely censored in countries such as China and North Korea.
The government will indeed put some of our most vital infrastructure under state control – but the states in question will be France and China.
However, the belief in the superiority of the private sector was such that, when it brought the rail infrastructure back under state control in 2002 following a series of rail disasters, Labour made sure it did not take the form of re-nationalisation – at least in legal terms.
Last month, state environmental regulators met in Los Angeles to discuss ways to sabotage the federal effort, including passing a law banning pipeline and other infrastructure from the three miles of waters off the shore that the state controls.
State control also skews priorities.
Agriculture was "collectivized," brought under state control.
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