Is the power to sell you everything you need at whatever price it wants.
The power to dictate what kind of work you must do, how much you can earn, under what conditions, and whether you are even allowed to do it at all.
And they don't want to pay for the government power needed to administer the courts, police and armies they need to protect their property and clean up their mess.
BY the way, when you quoted my remarks you conveniently stopped at my comments on monopoly. The one freedom the market does not have is freedom from the laws of economics. This is the only restraint which economic power has, competition from other economic power.
But the whole point of economic power is to crush your competition so it can be eliminated. And sooner or later, it is.
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The power the private sector seeks
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- Trust in government power
- "Scandal Cascade", indeed. Three witchhunts does not a cascade make.
- Power will be exercised one way or the other.
- That Obama quote...
- Jefferson could well imagine Dick Cheney and George Bush, but - - -