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To: koan who wrote (793003)	7/2/2014 12:31:23 AM
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Are you kidding.? The corporations buy the legislators Exactly, the government is controlling you, and its interfering in the economy, so business tries to recruit it. You greatly exaggerate the extent business controls the government, but lets go with your exaggeration as if it was real. Business controls the legislators, so you, not liking big business much, or at least being concerned about its power, want those legislators to control us more? Do you see why that doesn't make any sense? If government is a puppet of business then bigger government enables the government to control you. OTOH if you have minimal government, then even if government is the puppet of business, business can't do as much to you. Not to mention that if government isn't doing as much there is far less incentive for businesses to try to control the government in the first place. And what's funny is you don't just argue for big government in the abstract, or for government programs for the poor or whatever, you support all sorts of crony capitalism, handouts to business or regulation which restricts competition and hands more wealth and market power to businesses, as long as they are businesses you like or in industries you like, or have unionized employees. The man who constantly worries about big business, supported the GM bailout, supports all sorts of "green" subsidies and tax breaks, etc. And to get the low taxes they need to gut the social programs which they are fine with. If the corporations control the government, and they want to gut social programs, how come social programs keep expanding. Where is the counter balance? Big government is not a counterbalance. It enables crony capitalism and money and seven privledge for big business. The counter balance is a free market (including letting companies that do a bad job fail rather than bailing them out). Can you imagine an oil company saying: "I think you should raise our taxes, they are too low." I'm glad that they are unlikely to support a harmful policy like high taxes.