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Old 2010-06-20, 13:12   Link #7886
ChainLegacy
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 34
It's beyond the scope of a forum post. Essentially, large corporations use lobbying and other means to create regulations and red tape that benefit them and create massive economies of scale to prevent smaller business from becoming more viable. The fed manipulates the interest rate which by definition prevents a free market, prevents perfect competition (we're closer to an oligarchical hierarchy in this country at the present day than to monopolistic competition). When a government has the kind of power that the US government currently does, groups with influence (the ultra-rich), can manipulate that power to their own interest. This is why the ultra-rich have become more and more wealthy and comprise less and less of the population almost directly in parallel to the growth of government spending.

Conversely, a small government is incapable of 'rigging' the market or creating numerous legislation that could benefit a corporation. Even with the ultra rich in a small government, they can't use the gov. as a tool like wall street does today. Would life be perfect with a smaller government? No. Would the viability of small businesses improve? Certainly so. Would mass-produced, cheap, imported goods become less prominent as corporations stopped their stranglehold on the market? Most likely.

Are you just interested in my reasoning, or do you oppose this viewpoint? It's kind of hard to imagine someone in favor of larger gov. given the current state of the union.
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