Thread: The Balance between Conservatives and Progressives - Why Consensus is the Next Stage

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Business regulation only serves the mammoth corporations. I thought you were against mammoth corporations...now you are saying that government should work with corporations to dictate the products they make.

Because that's a fucking lie, that's why. The government should regulate the private sector to prevent corruption, exploitation, environmental destruction, etc... The government should NEVER subsidize the private sector (assuming education, health and other aspects of life where the bottom line should not be profit are separate from the private sector) nor include regulation that enables corporations to bypass competition.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

Because that's a fucking lie, that's why. The government should regulate the private sector to prevent corruption, exploitation, environmental destruction, etc... The government should NEVER subsidize the private sector (assuming education, health and other aspects of life where the bottom line should not be profit are separate from the private sector) nor include regulation that enables corporations to bypass competition.

You're missing a big part of the picture here. It's the big business favoring regulations that are used as bribes to big business to get them to buy US bonds and PAY for your social programs. The entire system runs on debt, and debt means paying off your creditors in one way or another.

Originally Posted by cmind

You're missing a big part of the picture here. It's the big business favoring regulations that are used as bribes to big business to get them to buy US bonds and PAY for your social programs. The entire system runs on debt, and debt means paying off your creditors in one way or another.

So obviously the solution is to only use the social programs we can support with annual tax revenue.