Chicago politics on a national scale - all to benefit the largest corporations and screw the middle class and entrepreneurs.
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
- Ayn Rand
Does anyone know what the threshold is in a business’s “size” (I assume measured by number of employees) for this penalty to kick in? I’ll try and dig it up myself, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads, it’d save some trouble.