(February 8, 2014 at 8:33 pm)Tiberius Wrote: This doesn't make it easier for businesses to "become government", because the government is still there, and it still enforces laws protecting the people.
That doesn't mean those businesses can't still do some very unsavory things to cement their business. What's to stop, for example, monopolies from forming? If you look at how super-corporations are buying up stock in multiple companies, we're already starting to go in that direction. I mean, if w're eliminating government regulations, wouldn't monopoly regulations count? And when companies get a monopoly on a specific, vital industry, what's to stop them from abusing their power?
Anyway, if the governments job is to protect the people, I think the people today need to be protected from predatory corporations more than anything. Regulations are exactly how or government protects us from them. Remember the chemical plant leak in West Virginia? That happened because of relaxing of government regulations; they hadn't been inspected since before I was in high school.
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