Planned Economy

[Agit8r]

When one business is provided land and infrastructure, while another is not...
When one business is allowed to pocket sales taxes, and another business is not...
When one business is welcomed with gifts, and one is grudgingly allowed to jump through hoops...

is this the free market at work?

Just askin'

 

[Revere]

No, it's corporate cronyism.

Government's fault.

 

[uscitizen]

It does seem to be the way of business in the USA for the last few decades.

 

[Revere]

All of that has been on the rise in the past two years, faster than ever.

 

[Agit8r]

No, it's corporate cronyism.

Government's fault.

Which gov't? State? Local? Federal?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Can you be more specific? What is this in relation to?

Of course it is not free markets at work. And it is of course bad practice. But it goes back to when Cain founded Nineveh. And hasn't changed much since

 

[Revere]

No, it's corporate cronyism.

Government's fault.

Which gov't? State? Local? Federal?

All of them.

 

[uscitizen]

No, it's corporate cronyism.

Government's fault.

Which gov't? State? Local? Federal?

Yes.

 

[uscitizen]

The same kind of deal the proposed creation theme park in KY is shooting for.

Must be right wingers behind it.

 

[Agit8r]

No, it's corporate cronyism.

Government's fault.

Which gov't? State? Local? Federal?

All of them.

what measures do you think would be appropriate for the federal gov't to take in order to restore commercial amity?

 

[hortysir]

Sounds like my (previous to being voted out) county commissioners.

 

[Revere]

Which gov't? State? Local? Federal?

All of them.

what measures do you think would be appropriate for the federal gov't to take in order to restore commercial amity?

Assuring commercial amity is not the job of government in a free society.

Getting the hell out of the way is.

 

[Agit8r]

All of them.

what measures do you think would be appropriate for the federal gov't to take in order to restore commercial amity?

Assuring commercial amity is not the job of government in a free society.

Getting the hell out of the way is.

Well one of the two original purposes of the constitution was to maintain commercial amity between the states (the other being common defence) which I assumed would be that which would fall under its jurisdiction (for it to be at fault). Certainly that would be related, in that states often give preferential bounties to companies in order to gain favor over other states.

 

[Revere]

Find "commercial amity" in the Constitution.

Quit making shit up.

 

[loosecannon]

When one business is provided land and infrastructure, while another is not...
When one business is allowed to pocket sales taxes, and another business is not...
When one business is welcomed with gifts, and one is grudgingly allowed to jump through hoops...

is this the free market at work?

Just askin'

Of Course not. Capitalists despise free markets and will avail themselves of all opportunity to create an unlevel playing field that benefits themselves and penalizes everybody else.

Capitalists despise capitalism.

 

[Revere]

Free markets don't guarantee level playing fields.

 

[loosecannon]

All of them.

what measures do you think would be appropriate for the federal gov't to take in order to restore commercial amity?

Assuring commercial amity is not the job of government in a free society.

Getting the hell out of the way is.

Thanks, stuck on stupid.

 

[loosecannon]

Free markets don't guarantee level playing fields.

Of course they do, in fact that is the very definition of a "free" market.

free market

free market
Definitions (3)
1. Business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.


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Definitions of Free market on the Web:

* A free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government except to regulate against force or fraud. This is the contemporary use of the terminology used by economists and in popular culture; the term has had other uses historically. ...
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* Any market in which trade is unregulated; an economic system free from government intervention
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* of, related to or characteristic of a free market. Lacking wealth redistribution
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* A market that is not interfered with by government constraints on transactions. Most would say, however, that a market that is subject to a modest and transparent tax can still be considered free.
www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/f.html

 

[Revere]

Sorry, no "level playing fields" any any of your crap.

 

[Revere]

If you own the patent on an iPad and I want to develop a knock off, that's not a level playing field.