Posted by
Redhead on Monday, March 03, 2008 10:19:26 AM
This is part two of an ongoing series on Liberal Logic. You can see the whole proposed set here.
Liberals seem to embrace larger and larger government, yet rail on and on against big business. The very thought that government is always benevolent is in itself a symptom of defective thinking, but I plan to look at it from a logical standpoint and the differences between the two. (Yes, brother-of-mine, I’m talking about you!)
There are three main differences between Big Business and Big Government:
1. Businesses cannot place you in jail for refusing to buy their goods or services, or in any other way force you to give them YOUR money.
2. Businesses cannot charge you for services they perform only for your neighbor.
3. If businesses try to accomplish 1 or 2, you can pursue them in court.
There have been large, very large donations made to liberals on behalf of large corporations. Why? To affect the free market in ways favorable to them. Wal-Mart is in favor of minimum wage laws. Why? Because they know that it hits smaller businesses harder.
Liberals love to complain about Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Mouths, especially when they lick the competition. Big Business does not always make a profit, though. And when they cut costs, they are demonized. If they tank, they are even worse.
You are given a chance to make a choice with most products you buy. If you don’t want to buy from Exxon, they are not going to show up at your doorstep to take you away or garnish your wages.
If you don’t like the products being offered by a business, you are free to go elsewhere, do without, or to make your own. In this way you get to decide where your money goes. With taxes, licensing, labor and environmental laws, that choice is being taken away. The sole decider of where your money, and in effect your labor goes, is the state. The competitive force is done away with on the individual level, and the winner goes to who can lobby the best; or under a big government system, there is no winner, except for those who run the state.
If a person or business does not like the offer being made for their products, labor, or time, they should be able to decide. The interference of the state is in nobody’s best interest but the state. So why do so many want to restrict this freedom of choice? The answer, my friends, is simple:
It’s not about Business, it’s about Control.