While liberals believe that a market system in which the government regulates the economy is ideal for protecting citizens from big business greed. They argue that the free market creates an unfair distribution of wealth. In a free market system, the richest get richer and the poor get poorer. But the United States has never operated a free market system; we have always had a mixed system, neither totally free nor totally regulated. This helps us regulate prices across the entire market, which would prevent excessive pricing, promote the growth of small businesses, help the economy strengthen, and avoid a crash.