Its not even crony capitalism anymore. Its more akin to crony socialism at this point.
The big guy gets all the tax breaks and subsidies for supporting restrictive laws which the little guy can’t overcome.
“Its not even crony capitalism anymore. “
There is no such thing as “crony capitalism” because it is oxymoron.
That phrase is used by commies to belittle capitalism. Vast majority of businesses have no cronies — US CoC is looking for its own, just like any lobbying association would. Lobbying is constitutional RIGHT! If you can pay for your influence, why not use it in the free market? Corporations have as much freedom of speech as any diseased parasite mooching off of net tax payers.
Between Bush’s TARP and Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvenstment Act we saw the big bank and financial interests along with big unions being taken care of with taxpayer dollars.
The elites are codifying an aristocracy before our very eyes. We are moving back to a royal class, a business class chartered by the royal class, and the slaves to service them. That would be us.