Yep, I stand for freedom, including the freedom for 1% to be 1% and the 99% to have the opportunity to achieve being the 1% through their own efforts, not the redistributive efforts of the force of government.
I generally oppose all redistribution wealth bottom up, and top down.
If someone has a great idea and has the guts and competence to put a big bet on it, and gets rich I’m happy. That’s capitalism. Today there is too much crony capitalism where the big bets have have been made and lost, and the middle class taxpayers get stuck with the bill on a US credit card and it has been going on for some time. This kind of capitalism is rampant in the USA. If we don’t break out of that corrupt mold of payoffs and paybacks that goes with it, I’m not confident at all of where the USA is headed.
Few major businesses open their doors without being on the government dole with taxpayer money, or some kind of special credits. It’s based on favoritism because it is based upon connections.
Business used to be about getting private funding and reaping the rewards (or loss). Today the bigger the business the more taxpayer money they get. This policy started in earnest with the so-called redevelopment dollars and progressed to billion dollar stadiums covered by taxpayers forced to pay up for bribes or lose the business or teams. Sometimes they even throw out private property owners under eminent domain so that someone else profits.