How can we cap and control big business and real estate?

From destroying "Mom and Pop" businesses and turning nice, small communities into huge urban centers. I've seen good farming communities get eaten up by hundreds of houses and then Wal-Mart and McDonalds. If you don't think there should be caps for big business or incentives for small business, explain why.

For the record, I'm a paleocon who does favor development, but to a certain point. I don't like seeing "Mom and Pop" businesses get crushed, and I hate seeing hundreds of houses being built over fertile farmland.

As you already know, in a free market it's hard to control growth and survival of the fittest. Yes, it hurts the small M&P stores that have to shut down, but it saves hundreds or thousands of consumers money on what they want to buy....

So, If you had a choice, would rather employ a few families so they can stay in business and thousands of people would have to pay more for the products, or do you put a few families out of business and save thousands of people money on goods, and give them a better life style ?

Places like Cuba and North Korea don't allow big business in. I don't want to live there.
Should a paleocon really ask this ??

Electronics,, Grocery,Hardware stores, Office Supply stores, Travel Agents, Book Stores, Music Stores, Small Department Stores, Video Stores and Pet Stores are are almost non existent M&P's any more,, is it a bad thing for consumers ?

There are still ways for M&P to make a living, just not in the stores that they had.

It's a great question, and no easy answer. I like the choice of products at lower prices.

Mr. Paleocon, take a chill pill. There is no way to stop or change the will of many. Mom and pop business used to be the backbone of American enterprise. Without a backbone it is easier to chill.