03-21-2017, 02:37 AM
(03-20-2017, 05:53 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-20-2017, 05:25 PM)Odin Wrote:(03-20-2017, 03:30 PM)Galen Wrote:(03-20-2017, 07:04 AM)Odin Wrote:(03-19-2017, 03:38 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Big business itself is relatively easy to evade.
Not if it is powerful enough to make itself the state.
It would be helpful if you provided an example of this happening. I have yet to find a historical example of this process.
During the Gilded Age many state governments were pretty much under the thumb of corporate interests.
That doesn't provide a historical example of private businesses setting themselves up as a state. It merely indicates that politicians can be bought and sold. Which isn't all that surprising really. All men have a price.
One other thing the Odin doesn't do is look at what happened to all the attempts the set up monopolies and trusts in the late nineteenth century. Under laissez faire they died horrible twitching deaths for the most part. None of them ever succeeded in their intended goal of controlling an industry.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises