I'm beginning to realize that power and wealth ARE concentrated in a centralized authority... the hands of the wealthy. Those same few who you say "pay all the taxes" shattered this economy for the rest of us.
We could go into what's actually "shattering the economy," but not here.
Only the government has a gun. Bill Gates can try and talk me into buying his software, but that's it. He can't arrest me for using a Mac. Or fine me for buying the wrong light bulb. When the richest guy in the country is in a hearing room with a bunch of Senators, who's sweating? The government could wreck Microsoft at a whim, and everyone knows it. The power of the State has become unlimited, and largely arbitrary.
Go look at my "government power" post.
People like Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, and some others are totalitarian, and have never been anything else. Heck, radical leftists have been totalitarian everywhere on the planet where they've managed to get sufficient power. What makes you think this country would be any different?
re: Power
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- The Republican Party, focusing on serious issues...
- Those are moderate loonies. One here calls all Democrats "Communist".
- It sounds like fibrillation has set in. (n/t)