Zone1 Logic vs American Leftism in American Politics

[HikerGuy83]

A small limited government is the key to maximum liberty, opportunity, prosperity.

Which is theoretically true. However, in practice people use political power to gain economic power. And economic power to gain political power.

You can't tell the different between big business and government anymore.

Big business uses the government to raise the barriers of entry into the market and often times....to protect itself.

Also, you need to be clear on which government. Federal, state, county or municiple.

 

[Foxfyre]

Which is theoretically true. However, in practice people use political power to gain economic power. And economic power to gain political power.

You can't tell the different between big business and government anymore.

Big business uses the government to raise the barriers of entry into the market and often times....to protect itself.

Also, you need to be clear on which government. Federal, state, county or municiple.

The reason big business and government seem so inextricably intertwined is that they largely are. Big business can legally be immune to many, sometimes most taxes by off shoring their profitable entities and using less profitable ones still in the USA as tax write offs. Small businesses do not have that capability and therefore it weakens a lot of competition to big business. Also big corporations can handle government mandates, rules, regulations with a lot less pain than can their smaller competitors. So the more intrusive the government is into commercial enterprise, the less competition and more profits big business has.

This is why most big business prefers Democrats in the majority in government and their contributions largely reflect that.

Logic: The less government regulation, mandates and other interference, the more all commerce and industry can prosper the people in all demographics/economic groups.

The Left: Prefers more regulation, mandates, and government control because that benefits them and those they favor and weakens any opposition. Logic be damned as they assure the people that they are the government and they are here to help.