Yeah but on the opposite end, I have yet to see any instances where deregulation of some utilities has led to more competition and lower prices. It has been the exact opposite actually. Also all the industries currently regulated were not any better for the consumer when they were not regulated. Just as an example, please show me a country that does not have any environmental regulation and also has a pristine environment. Or a company that does not try to find ways to maximize profits by finding any method it can use to do so even if its harmful to others as long as it isn't restricted by law (legal tax evasion). Even if you can come up with one example, it's still not enough because the other 99.9% do take advantage.
It's the same argument conservatives use for the need for voter ID laws. There have been quite literally single digit numbers of voter fraud in a country of over 300 million people but for some reason that's enough that we need to disenfranchise 30 million voters because those few instances. We even ignore the fact that current laws already prosecute and catch those fraudulent votes. It's a game of smoke and mirrors and the conservative propaganda machine is quite masterful in its production.
Conservatives argue that regulation has created all these monopolies and such and totally ignore the fact that without regulation, history has time and again shown the situation is much much much worse. There is some irony in the matter that many of the problems in regulation have been caused by conservative interference which at times feels like its done on purpose in order to alienate people from supporting it. Very similar to the starve the beast by cutting taxes and creating new unfunded programs at the same time in order to create a fiscal emergency that supports their dogma.
