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Originally posted by Superman
You are truly kooky, Pat. WAY out there. Read my posts again. One more time: I think one of the biggest mistakes we have made in this country is to allow the "coorporate" form of business. And the biggest problem in our public policy-making system is that we allow corporations to participate AT ALL.
Now......where did you get this notion that I favor corporate dominance of government?
Really kooky.........
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You favor "corporatism" in government by favoring government restrictions that favor the largest corporations over the smallest of them. For example, only the large automobile manufacturers can comply with federal restrictions on safety and emissions. No startup company that might want to make cars that get 100 miles per gallon, but only make 100 cars a year, could possibly comply with the regulations. Regulations formulated with the permission of the giant corporations expressly to prohibit competition from startups.
Conversely, IBM, arguably the largest computer corporation on the planet when microcomputers began; didn't have any real method to regulate the startups out of existence. Apple flourished, and others, because it took IBM a long time to get a handle on this issue. by the time they did, attempting to get legislation on pollution caused by computer manufacturing, it was years too late, and the manufacturing had largely moved offshore negating their leverage.
Just two examples among thousands.
Want to get into corporate welfare as a factor in the government welfare state?