No, my friend, you're the one who's got it backwards. Money is power, and power is exerted in order to preserve and expand that power. Government is not just resistance to private power, it is also its tool. You are confusing cause and effect.

I agree with you when you say government and business gang up to beat up on the consumer, but its not a coercive relationship. It is a mutually profitable one and it is financed by business because that's how it gets what it wants. When businesses decide to act outside this partnership with pet politicians we call them the Mafia.

Sure, a perfectly laissez-faire free market system would eliminate all these problems, but that's about as realistic as "from everyone according to his abilities, to everyone according to his needs". As long as businesses are of different sizes, strengths and efficiencies, they will do whatever it takes to get a jump on the competition and avoid the inconvenience of actually competing in free market. They will lobby, fund politicians, advertise, and bribe. They have the money, do you really expect them not to use it?