Nor is your word on the subject of socialism if you think america is socialist.

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@Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…2yrs2Y

I wish you'd do some research and discover that every socialist principle has been applied in America. We have a progressive income tax, public education, wealth redistribution, social welfare programs, punitive regulations on private businesses, a massive regulatory bureaucracy, and much much more. I'll admit, the worst is yet to come, this is still an early form of socialism, a type of "socialism lite" but it's still socialist. Certainly it's not free market, else we'd have no income tax and no federal regulation of businesses, and a gold standard monetary system.

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@9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…2yrs2Y

You know what I’ve noticed? You and I BOTH have issues with corporations, and most, if not all, of your problems inside of America spawn directly from either capitalism or current corporations. I think you’ve reach the horseshoe of the political spectrum, so much so that, in a few ways, you hate what I hate, but your reasoning is vastly different.

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@Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…2yrs2Y

I agree with you that many companies are corrupt. But I disagree with you that the government should be the one to fix it. Allow me to explain – political power is the legal privilege of using for on innocent persons. The definition of government is a human institution with such political power. Those with political power (the members of the government) can cart us off to prison with chains and execute us if we neglect to obey their fickle will. They can send people with guns and chains to enslave us. They have arbitrary and unnatural power over life, liberty, and property, and that mak… Read morees the government the most corruptible institution known to man. I'm certain we agree that "power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely." That's the scenario here. Businesses have power, economic power, and can therefore be corrupted. But their corruption is nothing compared to the corruption of those with POLITICAL power. Therefore, I do not believe we should give those with political power even more control over our lives, liberties, and properties by allowing them to regulate businesses that are, in fact, less corrupt than they are. That's my logic.

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@9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…2yrs2Y

To my logic, it is the government and the corporations that corrupt each other, though corporations remain corrupt at their heart due to the profit motive. They lobby government to give them tax cuts, and those politicians gain more time in control. Endlessly they will tighten the loop of corruption, and as their restrictions decrease and power increases, we gain corporatism; a disease of a system that is quite literally fascistic in its nature. My thought is to purge the government of corruption by separating the two as much as possible, then regulating the government as a people, as a natio… Read moren, to make it work for us while we figure out how to make our economic system work for us. As the government becomes ours, so too can social policy be increased. Overtime, my goal is socialism, not communism. My goal personally is to make the government ours so then we can benefit ourselves and others with less worry about the profit motive or political motives like staying in office at all costs. Both are corrupt, and both create an echo chamber with one another, and the only way to fix them is separate and regulate them. Regulating business mag sound like it’s those two coming together, but the difference is that one is ruled by people, the other is ruled by the profit motive. That’s how I view it, and our different views of it tend to change how we think. I can’t change yours, you can’t change mine, but both of us are desperately scrambling to at least leave a mark.

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@Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…2yrs2Y

Trump was the last time we had a tax cut. Big corporations are not lobbying for reductions in taxes but increases in inflation, because, as they have friends among those with political power, they get to spend the newly-printed money before it loses most of its value

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@9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…2yrs2Y

A free market is an added label in capitalism, it can be a command economy. We still have the strongest economy on earth, so by your own logic, it’s not exactly horrible. Regulations on private businesses are minute. They set the standards of pat as long as it’s above a basic bare minimum, and still hold extreme amounts of sway over politicians in congress. Behind the scenes, corporations control, and monopolies are rising. Less than 5 companies have monopoly of paper products, and that’s just the beginning.