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Budweiser (recently bought out by a Belgium based beer company), Miller and Coors who together produce 80% of all beer consumed in the US, each spend well over $250 million a year on television advertising campaigns, promoting their beer brands. Obviously, if one firm is advertising its brands heavily, the others must also advertise to defend their market shares.

Do you think these firms would welcome congressional legislation which restricted the amount that any one firm could spend on advertising to $1 million yearly, and thereby allowed them all to drastically reduce their costs without fear of losing ground to each other? Explain your answer.

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These firms would definitely not welcome congressional legislation capping their advertising budget. The whole purpose of a free market economy is to be able to to price products at any price and have minimal barriers when trying to promote a product to the public. ...

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