Why do governments regulate natural monopolies?
to allow additional producers
to enter a market to prevent a monopoly from abusing its customers
to lower the costs of production or distribution
to provide companies with greater access to raw materials

correct b

To enter a market to prevent a monopoly from abusing its customers

Explanation:

The government performs actions of economic regulation that affect the public (consumer) interests by controlling natural monopolies. A monopoly is when production is done by one or just a few companies.  Some producers would use regulations to fix the price, block entry, and increase profits, so they must be regulated to avoid abuses.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

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