Taxpayer Watchdog Slams DOJ’s Outlandish Google Proposal

For Immediate Release

Contact: Kara Zupkus (224)-456-0257

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last Friday, the Trump administration Department of Justice (DOJ) reiterated its predecessor’s desire to break up Google. As part of its antitrust case against the American company, DOJ is seeking to force Google to sell off its popular web browser, Chrome.

In response, Taxpayer Protection Alliance (TPA)Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs, Dan Savickas, offered the following comment:

“The new administration had the perfect opportunity to wipe the slate clean after the destructive antitrust policy of the Biden administration. The DOJ’s initial proposal sought remedies that went far beyond the allegations made at the trial stage. Sadly, instead of correcting course, this administration has decided to double down on this absurd proposal.

“The overreaching nature of the proposal suggested that this case was never about rooting out anticompetitive behavior. Rather, it’s about government bureaucrats punishing America’s most productive and innovative companies for their success. The new administration should know better than to push an agenda that blindly punishes success.

“The DOJ’s remedies will force Google to hamstring its own operations, bar them from engaging in common business practices, and even force them to lend active aid and assistance to its competitors. This is the antithesis of free market ideals. No regulator has demonstrated how consumers would benefit from having one of the nation’s most successful companies sell off popular products.

“The harmful effects of these proposals will be long lasting if implemented. Any company pursuing success will have a degree of uncertainty, knowing renegade bureaucrats could, at any moment, tear down all they had achieved by mere dictate. Google is dominant because it is the best. It has outcompeted its rivals and provided products and services American consumers value. American leaders should encourage such innovation and success, not punish it with never-ending litigation. The DOJ’s action is anything but ‘America First’ and should be swiftly abandoned.”

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