VAMatt said:
vivster said:
People seem to love being oppressed considering the amount of governments we have in this world.
I wonder what a good replacement would be. Oh yes, big for-profit companies that can do whatever they want to increase their revenue. They will certainly take good care of us.
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That's *an* alternative. But, its pretty unlikely. Right now, government and big business are one in the same. Eliminate government and you eliminate the crony capitalist system that allows big companies to pass off their losses on to taxpayers, protects them from competition, and shields them from liability and it would seem to me that businesses would have a lot less power over the lives of the average person than they do now.
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I would increase government to cut the corruption out from big business. For example, elections would be funded by tax payers, making them solely accountable to the voting public. No one would be allowed to contribute to campaigns or lawmakers for any reason, doing so would face massive fines and prison time. This way politicians don't spend 20% of their time campaigning and fund raising, they don't pass bills that have low approval rating because it appeases donors and legislation is not written by lobbyists.
My issue is never the size of government, it is how it operates and the level of corruption. I'll take a massive government that serves its people any day over a small one that allows abuses of the citizenry for self interest.