The critical difference is that there is more than one office tower. There are thousands. There's only one U.S. Capitol Building, and as anyone can see, it has far more power than any corporation ever had, even in the days of the "robber barons."

Broad decentralization of power is critical to maintain not only economic, but political freedom. The only place I've ever seen where corporations rule an entire nation with an iron hand is science fiction. I wish the same were true of political organizations.

The modern Federal government holds power far beyond anything imagined at our founding, when we were created as a union of individual states, and this trend is continuing.

I can tell Bill Gates and Microsoft to go to hell if I really want to. Try that with even the most minor departments of the government.

And good Lord, look around you. Does it LOOK like our economy is being "managed?" By anyone?