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n. - A federal official who seeks to dissolve business consortiums formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

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  • He earned the nickname "trustbuster" for reining in monopolies, and passed the first income tax into law.
  • He fought party bosses, sued to break up railroad trusts, was the "trustbuster" who launched 44 lawsuits against major corporations, gave the Interstate Commerce...
  • By changing the rules of the game of business so that sociopathic business behavior is no longer rewarded (and, indeed, is punished -- as Teddy Roosevelt famously did as the...
  • But then Taft was a Freemason and a third-rate Teddy Roosevelt trustbuster.
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