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igamabob
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Re: Freedom in the 50 States
01/31/11 03:30 AM


> > Minimal government, but oversight where it needs to be. If you take away all
> > government oversight, then you create a Standard Oil of America. Completely open
> > markets work well on paper, and in mathematical models that leave out human
> ingenuity
> > and greed.
>
> How about, as a part of minimal government, we eliminate most of the rights and
> protections granted to corporations? If people are held personally responsible for
> their actions and cannot hide behind a fictional entity, I think a lot of the worst
> abuses would go away.

I do agree with getting rid of the 'rights and protections' as you call them, and the 'Corporations are individuals' BS when it comes to lobbying etc. However, those 'rights and protections' weren't there during the rise of the monopolies that were the reasons for anti-trust laws.


Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.







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* Freedom in the 50 States krick 01/23/11 09:48 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States Jdurgi  01/30/11 06:58 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States DMala  01/30/11 08:51 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/24/11 05:15 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States krick  01/25/11 08:03 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 02:44 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 06:25 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 07:20 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 07:39 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 07:52 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 07:57 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 08:00 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States DMala  01/30/11 08:57 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/31/11 03:30 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States Jdurgi  01/30/11 07:16 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States AWJ  01/24/11 03:07 PM
. * Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose [nt] Andrew  01/24/11 05:24 AM
. * If you're playing strip poker maybe ;P [nt] URherenow  01/25/11 05:42 AM
. * Re: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose [nt] igamabob  01/24/11 02:48 PM

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