Which political ideology do you most identify with?
What role, if any, should a government have in regulating businesses in a free-market economy?
Period.
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That is an AMAZING way to fall to Fascism.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
It's actually called "libertarianism" stupid
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It’s called leaving corporations open to do as they please, and as such, they will influence the government to give them tax cuts or any amount of positive policy they desire, promoting monopolies and giving them profit while they sacrifice the interests of everyone else. That’s what happens under capitalism. It’s a tale as old as time.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
But do private businesses have political power (the legal privelege of using brute force on innocents people)? NO! Therefore shall we decrease the private sector at the expense of granting power holders even more authority over our lives, liberties, and properties? This is apparently an alien concept to you, but in a system of liberty people will do things you don't like, and you have to be fine with that, because the second government goes after them, there's nothing to stop it from going after you.
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Businesses eventually DO have political power regardless of how big the government is. In a “free market” economy, the companies slowly gain enough power and control to be able to operate as a semi-government, now with an extreme profit motive. In a laissez-faire leaning mixed economy, they influence the government to do as they wish, making them powerful. In a social democracy/ democratic socialist society, the sole goal is to use the government apparatus to make sure that corporations never reach that level of power, nor do they ever gain the ability to influence said government… Read more
