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idispense
Although good points by Chris, the fallacy of it is that the suppliers will raise their prices at will to you. You will lower your prices to compete against your own suppliers who will raise their prices at will to you after you have been pared down to the basics of nothing.
Ask your "powers that be" to explain to you who owns each of the on liners. Ask at your next meetings to see the research that should list the name of each onliner and show you the ownership of each onliner.
Then ask "your powers that be" if it is legal for search engines to enable your local applicable laws to be violated. Then ask them why some search engines were successfully fined 500 million dollars , then insist they produce the paperwork to prove they are actively pursuing the same path.
Ask your "powers that be" if any entity in the entire world has the legal right to break your local applicable laws and profit from doing so ? Ask why any search engine should be allowed to do so ?
Are you self governing or not , which is it ?
If you are self governing then you have a duty to know these answers and expect that the people you voted in and hired will know these basic answers and already have these answers at their finger tips, otherwise how could they realistically do the job? Ask to see their research on this matter and the answers. Ask to see the list, and all paperwork.
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