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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
i wish companies could be a little
more economically patriotic. not to the point of bankrupting themselves, but just a little bit.
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Economic patriotism. That sounds like a notion which could lead a free market down the rabbit hole of fascism/socialism/communism/totalitarianism.
Well, I suppose since we're halfway there, might as well finish the trip.
But shouldn't it be the other way around? I mean, shouldn't government power in a presumably free society be used to protect its presumably free market rather than to coerce it into allegiance to its regulatory, anti-competitive control? Shouldn't patriotism in a free society be to the people and their institutions rather than to the central government?
How about the government not regulating and taxing business to the point it becomes more than just a little bit onerous vis a vis opportunities elsewhere? Relatively higher costs can be more attractive in a free and friendly environment than lower costs in a communist regime with unlimited power to demand how, when, where, and under what conditions, including control of who actually runs the business along with access to its intellectual and technical property.
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