"As someone said - if there are people so rich that they can buy government some of them will do it. The large stratification leads to the oligarchical system and economic expropriation."
Brilliant, and you just happen to support giving the Government the power to be corrupted and phony economic theories to get thusly corrupted ... you fail to see that mercantilism, socialism, fascism and communism are all cut from the same collectivist cloth, designed to lull people into being for 'the good of the country' when in fact those few holding the levers of power benefit.
The best way to prevent the sins of oligarchy as practised in Latin America is to support *limited Government* and *free enterprise*, niether of which have been popular in Latin America, unfortunately.
In the US in the 1880s-1890s the anti-tariffs people were the populists, the farmers, the working classes ... the pro-tariff people were the wealthy industrialists.
The wealthy industrialists won the election of 1888, got President Harrison in, and insituted tariffs, the McKinley tariff of 1890 ... Prices went up, consumers got hurt, inflation and in the end a depression ensued. At least back then ordinary people knew which end was up, they kicked the bums out.
How we got to the point where advocating higher taxes and prices for consumers is 'for the little guy' escapes me, but the fact remains that throughout history, tariffs have been a ploy by manufacturing interests to garner higher profits by shutting down competition. It's been anti-ordinary-people to do so.
"mercantilism, socialism, fascism and communism" etc are real things caused by real reasons. If you do not learn from history you will repeat it in a worse way.
The best way to prevent the sins of oligarchy as practised in Latin America is to support *limited Government* and *free enterprise*, niether of which have been popular in Latin America, unfortunately.
How do you know it? From the books of Milton Friedman?