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> You can't negotiate with the mafia, they do not represent your will and they offer no services. Oh, right. Kind of like how SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, TPP, TPPIP and
by sillygeese 11y ago
> You can't negotiate with the mafia, they do not represent your will and they offer no services.
Oh, right. Kind of like how SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, TPP, TPPIP and so on ad infinitum represent your will?
They know people don't want onerous legislation. That's why they make it behind closed doors. So much for "representation".
- anonymfus 11y agoThese laws and agreements in your list were heavily lobbied by big corporations including Apple. One of the main reasons why their influence on politics is so big is that they are undertaxed. Concentration of capital in the possession of one agent is bad because of positive feedback loop. This is why progressive taxation must be applied to corporations like it's applied to people. This is why government's budget must be balanced.
- sillygeese 11y agoSo you think big corporations control the government, but you want the government to tax them so hard that they won't have the money to control the government anymore? Don't you think they'd bribe politicians not to tax them too hard? Also, if you tax those hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-providing nasty corporations into the ground, lots of people will lose their jobs. How's that for the common good?