They aren't laissez-faire, they just want slightly different types of control. Deregulating a group and adding some subsidies is just a different way to reward your buddies, but neither is representative of a free market.
I'm not sure how you guys view regulation as a whole, but an inordinate amount of it exists to help corps rather than us.
I was curious how you guys would take it, but there's no really good substitute that gets across what I wanted. I figured someone would say something if they considered it an issue. Edit is meh, but gets the point across.