I've owned and run a business, and I'd be more afraid of Billy G. than the government at this point.
Let's see now, which one of these two entities forcibly takes a large percentage of your profits (if you have any) under threat of fines and imprisonment? Which one also dictates the parameters of whom you may hire and fire and maintains a myriad of laws and regulations that control how you may, and may not, conduct your business? And if, in spite of all these impediments, you manage to create a very successful company through hard work, developing products that the public wishes to buy, and smart business decisions, which one has the power to chain you down and break you up, for the obviously un-American and anti-free market sin of being too successful?
Your fears, and those of many others, are badly misplaced on this issue, IMO. That is, unless you're the type of business person who can only succeed through currying governmental favors, such as lobbying for laws that give your business preferential treatment and shackles competitors. The system that operates this way is not socialism or capitalism. The system that mixes nominal private ownership of business and commerce with ultimate governmental control and regulation is called fascism.
-JB |
