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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
I'd rather not be controlled by any of them. Corporate bureaucrats can be influenced through boycotts, lawsuits, or simply taking my business elsewhere. Gov't bureaucrats are immune from lawsuits in all but the most egregious cases, and try boycotting or "voting with your feet" sometime. See what the IRS and FBI have to say about it; they won't be happy.
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This isn't always true. Boycotting/taking your business elsewhere is useless when problems exist within every corporation in an industry and that industry provides an irreplaceable necessity. Lawsuits only work if they provide a sufficient deterrent, which usually come in the form of large punitive cash awards. Perhaps you're the exception to the rule here, but I've not known many small government folk in favor of large punitive settlements against private industry.
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Bottom line is that no Corpie can come to my house at 3am with a machine-gun, kidnap me in the middle of the night, detain me against my will, beat the crap out of me (or kill me if I object) and then expect the tax-slaves to thank him for this selfless act of forced collectivisation. Gov't-type 'crats aren't just -able- to do so, they're appallingly -eager- to do so, given the slightest excuse.
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You realize that the only thing stopping the "Corpies" from doing this to you is the fact that the government would punish them via a process where government that tells these Corpies what they can and can't to with their own property?
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One of these two evils I can safely ignore or act against. The other I cannot. I know which I'd rather have.
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I am fairly certain that you aren't as powerful as you think with respect to either of these evils. But I've been mistaken before.