“Big corporations have no interest in helping the USA economy.”
No one in business large or small has any interest in helping the US or any other economy!!!
The only reason to be in business is profit!
Someone has to provide the incorporation papers and laws for the company.
You’d think that that would be a small reason to support the country and people affording them the privilege.
Or at least that was the way it was in the olden days(Before Bush Clinton Bush Obama “free trade”).
That kind of thinking is the result of decades of anti-business propaganda from the media and education system that businesses should serve their communities and/or nations. It is a kind of fascist economics.
Businesses are here to serve the market within the context of freedom which is US ALL which is driven and controlled our OUR demands by OUR choices.
Now it is true that there are market failures wherein the assumptions underlying economic theory are violated or not met. Here is where government can play a positive force. But it is dangerous to call upon. Particularly since the Democrat Party is so good at playing the Class Warfare game and the electorate so gullible and ignorant.
No one in business large or small has any interest in helping the US or any other economy!!!
The only reason to be in business is profit!
That exactly summarizes the basic problem that now exists in the USA. The term "corporate citizenship", when business was in partnership with the USA, is a philosophy from a bygone era. Today the GE's, Goldmans, Wal-Marts, the former Bell System, Apple, etc are all looking out for international shareholders and bonuses for CEOs only and not the economic viability of the USA. We're just another market that they see as declining and have contributed to the decline.
The USA was a powerhouse because the country and business were in partnership as patriots, instead of today where China and other nations are just as important to GE, etc. The Citizens United election funding decision allows these international companies to control our government and work to eliminate our sovereignty. Illegal immigration and amnesty will be one byproduct. Conservatives will rue the day that the Supreme Court made the ruling that international corporations can use unlimited money to fund our elections. If you believe that such a ruling will benefit America and conservative causes, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Unbridled, corporations will do things that are bad for the republic. There needs to be checks and balances. There are none. Govt is totally in bed with Corporate America. This government-business model is better known as fascism.
Exactly. That's why some government is necessary to set the rules of the marketplace so that businesses act in the interest more in the interest of the U.S.
Businesses acting on the profit motive will outsource overseas everything they can. And those that don't will be out of business. Unless government steps in and changes the rules to make it more profitable to keep operations here.