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To: KLP who wrote (30533)	5/23/2014 5:52:27 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 125128

"In other words, earlier on, businesses needed things that only a bigger government could provide, such as infrastructure development, a currency and tariffs. Once these things were in place, a small, hands-off government became better for business." That's incorrect. A small hands off government is better for people... and it is a requirement for a free market to exist. The assumption that business naturally wants a free market where they are required to compete, instead of a grant of monopoly and protection from competition... is the source of the error. Do insurance companies want to compete ? OR, do they want the government to FORCE you to buy their products... and pay whatever they require... under threat of violence ? The use of the word "business"... in addressing what is "better for business"... needs a more careful consideration than was applied here. Businesses today are NOT focused on sustaining the benefits of free markets... rather than focused on the benefits obtainable by fraud through the use of the power of government forcing people to submit to their frauds...