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To: driftdiver
I see you supporting the leftist agenda of attacking corporations as fundamentally evil.

And the facts don't support you. Companies can't force anyone to give them money in exchange for value recieved. People have to be convinced to give them money.

Or the corporation goes broke.

/johnny

131 posted on 07/20/2014 5:06:12 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You’re naive.


132 posted on 07/20/2014 5:14:11 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JRandomFreeper; driftdiver; a fool in paradise

Corporations are not “fundamentally” evil. They become evil bit by bit by colluding with government, which asks a little here and there and before long the government has it’s arm up the corporate rectum playing puppeteer.

Lay down with dogs, and you wake up with fleas. Keep going to bed with dogs, you might become a dog too.

“Sure we’ll do that small favor” they answer the lobbyist “How about we do that thing that will hamstrung your competition while we’re at it?”

They get you on the hook and you become the bait. They raise barriers of entry, they raise regulations and taxes so the competition finds it hard to impossible to compete.

Pretty soon the corporation that got there first is the big boy, thanks to politicians who will now use them as the “fat cat” whipping boy to rile up the peasants against them.

Then up goes the taxes, onerous regulations, mandatory benefits, backroom bribes, paying off both major parties, making sure to buy enough ad time so the MSM leaves you mostly alone....

What to do.... find a cheaper workforce.... find a place with lower corporate tax rates (everywhere on Earth)... or maybe import those cheap workers here, those same politicians suggest helpfully. Trust us, they say, it’ll be good for everyone.

Oops, you didn’t obey regulation #101,438 part D... which completely contradicts another regulation.... class-action lawsuit!... better pay up the courts say! A billion or so for starters.

.....

On and on and on....

It is a perverse and corrupted system from the get-go. I don’t see how any person can support this mess.

It is not a case of “Stop bashing corporations!”. I support the idea of corporations but I also free enterprise and what we have today is so very far from free.


173 posted on 07/20/2014 8:52:28 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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