Heck — I would make the case that entire industries like aerospace and pharmaceuticals wouldn’t even exist without this government largesse.
My former employer just got $75 million from the government to be invested along with the company’s $75 million investment to develop batteries for large trucks, class 7 and 8. The investment is supposed to develop batteries for on highway trucks, except none of the OEMs are buying into it. My former employer can’t even keep the current employees busy for 40 hours a week.
“To be fair, this might be a well-deserved threat against certain industries that have been playing a fascist racket for a long time. In my line of work I have come across more than a few cases where the U.S. government dumps a ton of money into a research project with private partners, and at the end of the contract the private companies end up holding the patents, copyrights, etc. for innovative products they then sell for billions of dollars in revenues.
Heck — I would make the case that entire industries like aerospace and pharmaceuticals wouldn’t even exist without this government largesse.”
Now you are catching on... “Corporatism” is NOT free market Capitalism. They are two hugely different critters altogether. Yet they are falsely thought of as synonymous. And this is where the price fixing comes from. Meat for example, the huge packer corporations are doubling and tripling the prices before they ever even get to the retailer. This is why I claim from manufacture to consumer there is a 100% to 200% mark up. It is a fact... And these big crony corporations are the reason why.
But with that said, We DO NOT need government to get involved AT ALL. What we need is to police ourselves as consumers and DO NOT pay those prices. Refuse to buy in mass and live without it for awhile and the prices WILL come down.
And to top it off... All these Large Corporations the “business is always right” cult support are DEMOCRATS and part of the communist New World Order.