Posted on 04/08/2014 11:27:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Sen. Jim DeMint, the president of the Heritage Foundation, writes in his new book—“Falling in Love With America Again”—about the cozy relationship between big business and big government.
“Almost all big corporations benefit from, advocate for, and downright like big government,” DeMint writes. […]
“These big companies like to write regulations that make it harder for the smaller companies to compete with them,” DeMint said. “The large companies can deal with a regulatory maze much better than the small companies can. Like the big tobacco companies wanted the FDA to regulate cigarettes because they knew the smaller companies could not get approval to ever introduce a new brand.” …
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I have been criticized here on FR for saying big business is as dangerous as big government. They go hand in hand, one needs the other.................
It's like I said during the bailouts, a company that is "Too Big To Fail" is in essence a Government company because the taxpayers are on the hook if it fails. That's why I am all for rigid enforcement of Anti-Trust laws. And the Government has been asleep at the switch for decades.
You get to a certain level of bigness and you become more LIKE a government. I work for a big corp and the red tape and “this is the way it’s done even though it’s stupid” is really horrible, plus they pile on liberal “culture” that’s at times vomit-inducing. I only took the job because I can’t drive in the dark anymore and it’s close to home. I’ll be moving to a nice, small town in a much more conservative state at the end of the year, thank goodness!
This would include big talk radio.
Seems this day and age, “capitalism” is uttered when “corporatism” is meant.
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