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To: DiogenesLamp
Please do not put communist words into my mouth. I am not suggesting that their earnings be distributed, I am suggesting that their business cannot be allowed to remain under the control of a small corporate oligarchy.

Money is power.

You have repeatedly suggested that the "power" of a company that has (in your opinion) gotten "too big" needs to be "reallocated" among the people. This belief is at the heart of the communist ideal. Those who "have not" covet those who "have" so they band together to steal it while disguising their theft as a "return of the power to the people."

Monopolies *only* exist with the authority to use force - not against the public, but against their competition. Any company that becomes a monopoly does so not because they get too big and then begin wielding force, they do so because the guns of government are already standing behind them in the form of corporate tax loopholes, government contracts, research grants, licensing restrictions, wage laws, union contracts, labor laws, and oceans of other laws, rules, and regulations that fence off the ability of smaller competitors to enter the market.

You can't fix a problem with more of the problem any more than you an fix cancer with more cancer. You have to excise it.

You want to end monopolies? Get the government out of the business of doing business.

139 posted on 06/20/2017 9:42:05 AM PDT by DBG8489
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To: DBG8489
You have repeatedly suggested that the "power" of a company that has (in your opinion) gotten "too big" needs to be "reallocated" among the people.

I have not said anything which even slightly resembles such a thing. I said that corporations which get so big that they control huge swaths of the economy and the public need to be broken up and control of those corporations needs to be distributed among more people.

Think the "Bell System" and you'll have a better idea of what i'm saying.

158 posted on 06/20/2017 11:17:17 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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