bripat9643
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Corporations have the power to pre-select the candidates you vote for.When government's power to manipulate our economic decisions, whatever that means, is revoked, what fills the power vacuum, corporations?
How could such an event transpire except through a democratic adjustment at the polls?
Private money rules government because of the power of corporations which will not vanish by reducing the level of democratic control supplied by government.
What "power" do corporations have other than to supply you with goods you want?
They have no such power. In reality populare candidates have the power to squeeze corporations for donations by threatening them with harmful regulations.
They use this same power to drive down wages,
They have no power to drive down wages. Politicians, on the other hand, do have that power by flooding the country with immigrants willing to work for low wages.
foreclose opportunity,
How on earth would they do that? Why would they do it if they could?
and raise prices.
It sure isn't working in the housing sector, is it?
They transfer wealth from consumers, workers, and entrepreneurs to rich execs and shareholders.
How do they accomplish this "transfer" of wealth? I'm dying to know.