If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this

That in all cases, for all commodities that serve to provide for the tangible or intangible needs of the consumer, it is in the consumer’s best interest that labor and trade remain free, because the freedom of labor and of trade have as their necessary and permanent result the maximum reduction of price.

... Whence it follows | That no government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity. | p. 3, as cited in: Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2001), Democracy - the God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order. Transaction Publishers, p. 271 | The Natural Order of Society