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Originally Posted by wdmso

By this I assume you mean Taxes .. you think your money you use for your cable bill or phone bill isn't taken by Force, because of laws that protect these Monopolies which

As you say, BECAUSE OF LAWS . . . laws are government . . . because of government these companies are "protected". Government allows, sanctions, promotes this supposed "force" of which you speak.

Where in the Constitution is the Federal Government granted the power or task of picking and choosing winners and losers in the private sector? It is the Progressive philosophy of governing that distorts or destroys the constitutional limitations which prevent government from doing so.

If you're so against government complicity in companies "forcing" you to pay what you think is too much, why are you all in for the Progressive "living and breathing" interpretation of the Constitution?

seek less regulation so they can charge you more,

It is not the quantity of regulation they seek, but the kind. The kind that squeezes out competitors or gives advantage over them. The more of those kind of regulations the merrier are the monopolies.

Don't you find it extraordinary that one of the major economic issues the early Progressives ran on was the busting up and prevention of monopolies, yet their way of regulating has created more and bigger ones?

yet seek tax breaks or go offshore to avoid the Laws that you and I can go to jail for if we don't pay.. or force their employees to strike claiming there poor to fund healthcare pay raises or retirements then go buy yahoo $4.83 billion, cash ending the internet pioneer's two-decade run as independent company. these companies effect my monthly budget then any one or thing from public sector

If you understand the fascistic relationship between big government and big business in the way Progressives see it . . . that is, government, through "experts" decides what is best, and it has the unlimited power to make that happen as it sees fit--for business to succeed it must do as the government commands, and it will be greatly rewarded for doing so, and the bigger corporations are, the less need there is for more of them, and that makes it easier for government to efficiently control them . . . if you understand the symbiotic relationship between big business and big government, it should be easy for you to see how the supposed war between them is really just adjustments to their yin-yang. And should make it easier to understand that the politicians "fight" against the big corporations is mostly a smoke screen.

... and please don't say we have choices living on or off the grid isn't a choice an American should be asked to do because of the greed of others

Technological advancement does change how we live. Even in the most primitive conditions, you are "forced" to do certain things to survive. Freedom does not change that. The Progressive promise to free humans from that "force" is pie in the sky. On the contrary, it imposes even more force in order for you to be what it considers free. And that consideration certainly doesn't include limited government, constitutionally or otherwise.