(March 31, 2011 at 11:53 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: Because they've been consistently fighting to lower their standards, lower teacher pay, allow the...
Okay good points, you can have that one.
Quote:You keep up this optimism that somehow an unregulated capitalist market is going to stomp out corruption when all its going to do is remove many of the limits between the corrupting forces (the wealthy wanting to be given favorable breaks) and the government that's supposed to be protecting their citizens from tyranny.
Tyranny? Ah, another corporophobe.
They get far bigger advantages from government that they do constraints. Do you think that the number of regulations on the market outweighs the cushy privileges, tax breaks and subsidies? No - Especially not for the bigger corporations, the regulations fuck over small to medium sized business far more because they don't get the massive welfare packages to account for it!
Your government just "regulated" the labor force again by changing the definition of disabled to extend to anxiety, bi-polar, HIV and so on, now over half the labor market qualifies as disabled, and the employees no longer have the burden of proof to demonstrate they are disabled, the employer has to prove that they aren't!
Skip to 4:30.
http://fetch.noxsolutions.com/schiff/aud...110330.mp3
In a free market you CAN'T give the wealthy breaks, you can't give them any taxpayer money at all - they can only get what they want via trade. If they can do so through consensual trade then who fucking cares?
Quote:I live in a healthy society and I've gotten a decent education thanks to many of those 'corrupting influences.' I dreak clean water, eat healthy foods, and be sure that most of the items in my home are safe to use, and go to work with the certainty that I will be safe and unspoiled from many abuses thanks to government regulation of some form or another. Yes, it interferes with the 'consentual trade of adults', but it does so for everyone's protection in more cases than not.
Cant' get clean water and an education without the government! Can't buy veggies without the government! No company will make safe products without regulations, right? That's bollocks. It's in the best interests of the companies to make safe products, not only will they lose customers otherwise, they can be prosecuted for negligence - You don't need some government official to go check up on them, you just need to arrest them when they do something wrong.
And what was that link? A rival company produced the same product cheaper and the FDA said "sure you can do that?" - That's an example of good competition, not some government win.
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