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To: TigerPaw who wrote (191415)	6/23/2004 2:07:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588048

Corporations exert influence on the government to give them special advantages, that is as much of a problem as any other government interference. But absent the government actively helping the corporation they don't have anywhere near as much power as the government. The government can throw you in prison or execute you if you don't follow its line. A business, even a monopoly if it doesn't have government support can't. In most cases there isn't even a monopoly. You don't like Intel or Microsoft, run a PC with an AMD processor and Linux, or maybe use a Mac. You don't like paying taxes for some federal program (whether its the invasion of Iraq or some new social program or whatever) and your stuck. Even a minimal government can be stronger then any company. It doesn't have to regulate everything, or even many things in order to be firm where regulation is really needed. Certainly you don't have to send a man to jail for offering a 5 cent discount in order to keep people free from corporate control. Tim