rukkyg

A libertarian would say that a corporation would spend extra money if it was eocnomically beneficial. That is, that people would hear about the horrible pollution or the person falling off the smoke stack, and then would boycott the corporation's products until they did something about it.

My argument is that without a government protected media, no one would ever hear about the pollution or the smoke stack incident. The media corporation wouldn't dare air something that shows themselves (or their buddy corporation) in a negative light. Things like this are already happening now, you just don't know about them for the same reason.

I support heavy regulation of everything corporate. There's practically no regulation now, and the regulatory agencies we do have are underfunded thanks to tax cuts and corporate lobbying. As such, I also support a tax-and-spend philosophy as well as an abolishment of corporate lobbying and corporate donations to political parties (supposed goals of campaign finance reform). Only if actual people have a say in the government, or more exactly, if all people have an equal say in government, can the government-over-corporation plan work. I want to know what magical condition will let the corporation-over-government plan will work. I'll remind you that our government is "by the people, for the people," and as such, the people ARE the government (in the extreme case I present).