Go back and follow the chain of posts, and you will see that I was responding to a post that advocated selecting a few companies and boycotting them in order to destroy 10% to 25% of their business. Are you claiming that that would not have any effect on the Dow, and/or that would not have any effect on the economy? Boycotting our way to economic growth is a bit like taxing ourselves to economic growth - both are Democrat tactics that are sure to produce the opposite.
Not by any stretch of the imagination.
The former is pure free market decisionmaking. That sovereign individuals can band together and choose whether to purchase or avoid purchasing a particular brand or product is marketing at it's best.
The latter, taxing our way to prosperity has a more exact sibling - Spending our way to prosperity! Which is exactly what the U.S. is doing on a scale larger than the criminal Clinton administration.
- both are Democrat tactics that are sure to produce the opposite.
Onerous taxation and out of control deficit spending, yes.
Brand name boycotting is an age old free market tradition. Do you believe that only industry can practice laissez faire, but not the consumer?
Such a belief is indicative of mercantilist fascism.