Yeah stupid, "inaction" is the best course as it's not the business of the federal government.
Big Pharma and Big Insurance pour trillions of dollars a year into Washington. They fund elections and apply massive lobbying pressure. Meaning: the government already has its hands all over the market
because of private sector financial pressure.
Consider the Patent System?
This is where the nanny state builds a monopoly-fence around the products of the private sector, so they can charge 1,000X production costs for drugs without being disciplined by market competition.
Seriously, this comment is
unbelievable. Someone has been studying hard at the Chris Matthews school of communism. It's
not a "monopoly" to protect intellectual property. Every advancement we've ever experienced (from healthcare to technology to science, etc.) is the direct result of significant R&D costs. Costs that people would
never accept and incur if their subsequent results could be ripped off by lazy parasites.
Washington is where big corporations go for subsidies, bailouts, regulatory favors and virtual monopolies in the form of a corrupt patent system based on pure Big Government intervention.
Wow. I mean, seriously,
wow. My 4 year old is even laughing at the absurdity of this post. You are definitely the good little soldier of the liberal propaganda. There is nothing "corrupt" about the patent system as we have already covered. As for the rest of your absurd insanity, we have the
highest corporate tax rate in the
world. If "big corporations" yield sooooo much power, influence, and control over Washington, then they are some of the dumbest mother fuckers in world history - because they are being fleeced blind by the federal government.
Whenever someone wants to repeal some of the ill-begotten gains of Lobbying Industrial Complex we hear cries of socialism.
Drug industry sales are inflated by 290 billion a year because the private sector benefits from government intervention in the market . The last thing on earth the private sector wants is a free market; this is why they fund elections and flock to Washington.
You think any business wants to piss away their profits on representatives and lobbyists? Really? You're
really that ****'n stupid as to believe that idiot liberal bullshit? They do that out of the pure necessity to
survive. Even with dumping hundreds of billions into Washington we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world and some of the most stifling, suffocating regulations in the world. Can you imagine how bad it would be without spending a fortune on people to protect their interests?
Our political system and news sources are owned by a private sector which has distorted markets more than FDR could have ever dreamed.
Jospeh Stalin, is that you? Now you're complaining that our news sources are privately owned?!?
Who should control them, the
government? God Almighty are you a weak-minded simpleton. Bow to government, they love you - right?
Please turn off talk radio and try to study some of this stuff.
Please turn
on talk radio you simple-minded surf and use it as a guide to start studying some of this stuff
Don't take my word for it.
Believe me, I wouldn't. Nor would anyone with an
ounce of common sense. You're a pure, unaldulterated communist (and yet you will deny that simple fact - which I find fascinating).
Research why corporations fund elections and create lobbying empires.
We covered this above genius. It's because the federal government has impeded on the free market so severely, corporations are
forced to spend ungodly sums of money out of desperation to survive. Money they would much rather keep as profit and use to reinvest in their company.
The fact that you
think corporations enjoy dumping their money into lobbyists and elections is comical. Clearly you have never run a business. Hell, clearly you never graduated high school to believe such nonsense.
They're paying for the right to fleece the taxpayer
Someone's mommy & daddy put them to sleep every night by reading them the Communist Manifesto. How can a corporation "fleece a taxpayer"?!? They don't set the tax rates in America - as we've already discussed based on the
fact (something you seem terribly adverse to) that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
. . as they quietly funnel money into FOX and Limbaugh so as to distract uneducated morons with horror stories about gays, illegals, welfare queens and food stamps.
Says the uneducated moron who is telling people to turn off the flow of information (like a good little communist) while complaining that our news sources are not controlled by the federal government (like a really good little communist)...
We all agree that competitive markets are better at allocating resources and setting prices than any government bureaucrat,
My God, you
finally said something intelligent. Man, it was painful reading all of your nonsense waiting for anything which wasn't completely absurd.
but then we started 4th grade and realized that the people talking most about free markets were the ones who had distorted it the most.
Sadly though, it only takes one reaching the 2nd grade [MENTION=24221]Londoner[/MENTION] to realize everything you are spewing is 100% brainwashed bullshit. How can you "distort" the free market? The whole point of a free market is that you can't effect me because I am FREE from you impacting me. It only gets "distorted" once government over steps their Constitutional authority you buffoon.
