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Thank you for that. The Rule of Law, respect for property rights and the ability to keep ones fruits are all being destroyed, which is destroying, distorting our free enterprise system (capitalism).

Example: Investors/stock brokers are examples of capitalism. They make money for their clients, lots of money for people in congress, with insider info. This free enterprise system is not free for all to pursue. Capitalism is being destroyed by the unholy alliance between business and government.

Government is redistributing wealth and entitlements are one vehicle for that redistribution. Laws, in particular tax laws, are another vehicle for redistribution.

Not everything is a shining example of capitalism because of the distortions. To say so, makes the argument that capitalism is bad, socialism is good.

A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s less well off to become tomorrow’s rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.

Milton Friedman