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Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Hell hath no fury like a man who has installed the Google Toolbar.


I get it, the education system has done a fine job of instilling views like "big business is evil" into the minds of their future voting block.

This anti-business attitude and people voting on this emotional, not factual viewpoint is what has gotten us to the point we are in this nation, nearing the tipping point of 50% of the population on welfare. Once we reach that point of more people taking from the system than paying in, we're done as a nation and that cliff is fast approaching. This current Administration hasn't even cared about turning the situation around, they've mashed the accelerator to the floor as that cliff is in our sights.

Taking the lesser of two evils, Corporate Welfare and people at least attempting to work and provide for themselves is always better than a nation of people on welfare, who not only can't find work but actually prefer not to.

MD, you say we're quickly approaching the cliff and that more and more people are relying on government handouts to make ends meet. We've been giving huge tax breaks and incentives to companies for years. Why are you against attempting to make the regulations more favorable for consumers?

Those of us in favor of limiting the support of big business don't want more people relying on subsidies. We want more people employeed and keeping more of their money. I want businesses to be succesful and do well. I want entrepreneurs to be rewarded for their risk and hard work. They still will be under a system that favors the consumer. I believe that allowing more money to flow from the people, to businesses, and back is what develops a healthy economy. Allowing these mega corporations to horde massive profits does nothing to reinvest in our economy.

You want to get people off food stamps? Me too. I would love to have entitlement reform. Problem is, you have to give your populace the means to support themselves. Having a class of people who are destitude and unable to feed themselves, find shelter, and purchase the necessities leads to a culture with signficantly more crime and social unrest. That's not good for any country.

We've been propping up big business and giving them benefits for a long time now. We've seen companies make record profits while paying historically low tax rates on that profit. We've also seen the disappearance of the middle class in this country and we're seeing the first generation who isn't off then their parents in perhaps the history of our country. Big business subsidies and tax breaks are not single handedly responsible for these issues, but they are a primary factor.

The difficult part is ensuring small businesses can be competitive with the giant mega corporations we have now. The most critical component in capitalism is the pressence of true competition.