Comment Re:Oh god.. (Score 1) 659
I will focus on corporations, since you think my argument doesn't stand.
A corporation would not exist without government, period. What you would have is individuals creating and trading -- they would be fully liable for their actions. What's this government-instituted bullshit about maximum penalties and such? Why are corporations considered legal individuals? They have protections under government which do not exist otherwise, because they are complete special-interest fabrications.
It is known that most large corporations are extremely inefficient -- they get by through lobbying. Did you know that the biggest of health care insurance companies actually welcomed the health care "reform"? The bill made it harder for any kind of competition to arise. I can guarantee you that prices will continue to rise because we are continuing to politically give favor to the richest of companies.
A "free market" is simply reducing all trade to supply/demand, as well as allowing people to trade in any way they want to. You are probably used to seeing the central-bank-driven, mercantilist, protectionist, corporatist market system we have in America, so you naturally hate markets. This is understandable, but it has nothing to do with markets themselves.
When government takes an action, it monopolizes it; taking that power from its citizens (who may or may not have been exercising or been aware of that power). If you haven't noticed, politicians are corrupt practically by requirement and we have a pretty clear political class of rich assholes telling everyone else how to live. What do you suggest?
"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought." -Lord Acton
A corporation would not exist without government, period. What you would have is individuals creating and trading -- they would be fully liable for their actions. What's this government-instituted bullshit about maximum penalties and such? Why are corporations considered legal individuals? They have protections under government which do not exist otherwise, because they are complete special-interest fabrications.
It is known that most large corporations are extremely inefficient -- they get by through lobbying. Did you know that the biggest of health care insurance companies actually welcomed the health care "reform"? The bill made it harder for any kind of competition to arise. I can guarantee you that prices will continue to rise because we are continuing to politically give favor to the richest of companies.
A "free market" is simply reducing all trade to supply/demand, as well as allowing people to trade in any way they want to. You are probably used to seeing the central-bank-driven, mercantilist, protectionist, corporatist market system we have in America, so you naturally hate markets. This is understandable, but it has nothing to do with markets themselves.
When government takes an action, it monopolizes it; taking that power from its citizens (who may or may not have been exercising or been aware of that power). If you haven't noticed, politicians are corrupt practically by requirement and we have a pretty clear political class of rich assholes telling everyone else how to live. What do you suggest?
"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought." -Lord Acton