Why are Trusts illegal in law??

Question

I mean in the United States.

Answer 1

We have lots of them in the United States
(totally legal here)
And I own some from Canada . . .
What country are you in ?

Answer 2

There is no such thing as trusts. Anti-trust laws were created by big business so that they can retain oligarchy status and so any company that became too efficient could be bankrupted. The Microsoft anti-trust case exposed this. Microsoft was sued by the makers of the Linux operating system because people were choosing Windows (which was and is preloaded onto most new computers) instead of Linux.

Anti-trust laws are for businesses that lose in our Democracy that we call the marketplace, so that they can survive even if they aren't receiving enough votes (which are simply purchases). Government regulation is designed to prevent businesses from outcompeting their competitors too much. That's why we have anti-trust, patents, copyrights, FDA, EPA, FCC, FTC, and all the other regulations on business. Even with a government protecting businesses, most of them don't remain on top for long. Under Capitalism, there would be even fewer companies that stayed on top for a long time.

It is immoral to aid an anti-trust case because anti-trust laws are absolute nonsense. Consider the example of prices. If you price lower than your competitors, it is called Predatory Pricing. If you price higher than your competitors, it is called Price Gouging. If you price the same, it is called Collusion. It is a classic Catch-22. Well, there is actually a character in the book Catch-22 who is a farmer that is paid money by the government not to pay crops that he uses to buy more land to be paid more money not to grow crops on. They actually started doing that during the New Deal and have never stopped.