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Originally posted by madmax
Maybe or maybe not. They are incorporated, pay taxes, have paid employees, generate millions of dollars and some operate out of 10 million dollar+ HQ buildings. Maybe they are both a social organization and a business.
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They're not a for-profit business. Antitrust doesn't apply. There are no owners or shareholders, no one gets a percentage of the profits. All the money is put back into the organization- philanthropies, programming, etc.
Antitrust is a very tricky, complicated thing. For those of you who are sports fans, that's one of the legal theories that some of the Big East schools that are suing the ACC are using.
Most laws aren't blanket laws- they don't cover all groups and individuals. Most are applied more narrowly. Things like freedom of speech- people try to apply it all the time in ways in which it can't legally be applied.
And once again, this whole question of expansion is only pertinent to NPC groups. It was something each group accepted when joining the NPC.