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Old 04-15-2011, 12:47 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Why do you think a company like GE gives more money to Democrats than Republicans? Why is the CEO of GE putting so much effort into getting into the good graces of Obama?
Because if you've already taken over one party in a two-party system, it follows that you would attempt to also take over the second. Many Democrats are just as corporatist as the Republicans, but the Democrats simply haven't been taken over as much. The GOP works essentially as one to support corporate power (with like one or two exceptions), but the Democrats go back and fourth on it.
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Realize there is a real but perhaps subtle difference between people like me and true "corpratists" as you say - I think big Fortune 500 type companies have an unfair advatage against small and medium size business. Government and "corporatists" collude, in my view, to restrict competition. I want an even playing field. A small business does not have the same opportunity to avoid taxes as GE. The tax code is too complicated - lower the rate (or give us a flat rate) and get rid of all the loop-holes that only benefit a select few. That is what I fight for, and I fight against big corporations and big government. I think most Tea Party people are the same.
A flat tax favors the rich, which includes big corporations. We need to plug loopholes in the tax code so that businesses simply pay what's owed. GE never should have had the opportunity to pay less taxes, let alone pay none. The problem is that these huge companies pay some of the money they would have paid in taxes on lobbyists, campaigns, and bribes. These should all be either illegal or tightly regulated to prevent corporate oligarchy, which I'm sad to say is where we're headed. Corporations essentially bribe politicians to give them more subsidies and less taxes, then turn around and squash competition, carving out a permanent seat of power in the market.
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Obama is more a "corporatist" than I am. Look at his actions with GM, banks, health care insurers. All big winners under Obama. Big losers so far - small businesses.
I'm assuming you would have allowed GM to fail, which I agree with, but what would you have done with the financial institutions and health care insurers?
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