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there's 150 years or so of the history of actually existing capitalism that demonstrates pretty clearly, if you actually bother to look into it, that the private sector is rarely any good at either determining socially beneficial outcomes or at fashioning approaches that advance toward them.
but even milty friedmany metaphysics would lead you to this conclusion in the same data-free world you live in, ace---businesses are machines that generate returns for shareholders. anything outside that is practically---and ethically for uncle milty---a problem because they're outside the competences of businesses. it's not what they're for. that's not what they do.
so on those axiomatic grounds, you have no logical basis to oppose either state policy initiatives or variations in tax rates---except insofar as they impinge on the (pathologically) narrow interests of shareholders---which is, according to the gospel of neo-liberalism--to make money.
the arguments that there are any social benefits to this kind of activity are unnecessary in neo-liberal land. this is in itself a social benefit, neo-liberals would hold.
except for the social benefit part, of course.
so the solution is to oppose the actions of the state. because the what you want is to eliminate people and/or feedback loops that inform you of the socially dysfunctional outcomes of an exclusive focus on shareholder returns.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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