Yeah, the almighty business community in my county has erected an economic structure based on the phony industries of tourism, real estate, and construction, plundering the natural environment that made these viable here in the first place. Now we have blight, dropping water tables, urban sprawl, unemployment, crowding and crime. But salaries are low and there is no state income tax! "Development" is more akin to slash-and-burn agriculture than it is to sound farming practices.

And lots of public dollars go into futile beach sand replenishment efforts (that benefit only a handful of absentee landlords). Your vision of the economy as a battleground between noble entrepreneurs and evil collectivists is a libertarian fantasy, TB. In reality, it's all the same class of people. You can't tell 'em apart without a program.