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The first thing that popped into my head was that without corn and sugar subsidies, the prices of crappy food would skyrocket. So maybe diabetes would decline... likely to be replaced by malnutrition eventually, once labor went back to working for scrip.
Then again, maybe all those farmers who are getting paid to not grow corn will start growing it...
With the morals of people today it would not work out. The evil and greedy people would clearly try to take advantage of the honest and hard working. It would result in more division than we have now. The key is morals and consideration, which many people lack. What is going on now is not much different, unfortunately.
What on earth do you call what Democrats have done the last 50 years?
There's never been a "free" market. Lobbying would have no purpose because those with the most wealth or capital would just be able to take what they want.
Exactly!
Unfortunately, most of the rules and regulations created and amended have been twisted the past 30 years to benefit the wealthy rather than to protect the ignorant of the country. The wealthy connected use rules and regulations to kill their competition rather than to protect the country. One only needs to look who is writing these to see it for what it is.
Imagine if I own a Big Bank on Wall Street or am head of Big Pharma or Big Oil and am allowed to write the rules....
Getting rid of the Regulations we have will only shift the game and the same predators we have will adjust accordingly to continue the game.
The top wealthy elite are always looking for an advantage to gain more wealth.
If there was no welfare of any kind, no regulations, unlimited lobbying - a complete, corporate free for all, what would America be like? Do you think the benefits would trickle down to the masses due to limits being lifted on the innovation and entrepreneurship from great minds like Steve Wozniak, Miley Cyrus, and the Waltons, or would America turn into a plutocratic third world hell hole?
Plutocratic Third World. History has shown us this time and again. There is no reason to believe America would be any different.
A free market has no corporations. They are a government market intervention.
And? Businesses will figure out how to become monopolies with or without governments. You are confusing the issue, public or private doesn't matter, the issue is human nature.
There's never been a "free" market. Lobbying would have no purpose because those with the most wealth or capital would just be able to take what they want.
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Originally Posted by J746NEW
Exactly!
Unfortunately, most of the rules and regulations created and amended have been twisted the past 30 years to benefit the wealthy rather than to protect the ignorant of the country. The wealthy connected use rules and regulations to kill their competition rather than to protect the country. One only needs to look who is writing these to see it for what it is.
Imagine if I own a Big Bank on Wall Street or am head of Big Pharma or Big Oil and am allowed to write the rules....
Getting rid of the Regulations we have will only shift the game and the same predators we have will adjust accordingly to continue the game.
The top wealthy elite are always looking for an advantage to gain more wealth.
And you two think there's no repercussions to taking what you want?
The federal system we have here was meant to keep things from getting out of hand like late 1700's France. So long as you have a federal republic like you're suppose to you have nothing to worry about. If you joined in with the crowd that thinks you live with any other form of government you are the problem and thereby can never be part of the solution.
And? Businesses will figure out how to become monopolies with or without governments. You are confusing the issue, public or private doesn't matter, the issue is human nature.
The only way you can be a monopoly in a free market is to be drastically better than everyone else.
Government intervention creates monopolies. Free markets destroy them.
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