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In a free market society, there would be no such thing as a powerful lawmaker. By saying that many politicians are incapable of resisting corruption, you are ma

• yequalsx 16y ago
  No, I am making no such argument. What needs to change, in my opinion, is our culture. Many politicians in our current political system with our current culture are incapable of resisting corruption. Severely limiting the power of government would just let corporations run roughshod over us even more than they do now.
  • jimmyk 16y ago
    >Severely limiting the power of government would just let corporations run roughshod over us even more than they do now. I disagree, and offer this article as a source of several examples. The corporations currently have far more influence over the actions of the government than the general public, which means that corporations are able to exercise a lot of effective power over the general public. By removing some government power, you lessen the effective power of corporations. If the government is stripped of its power to do things like shutting down small coffin makers or imposing high tariffs on specific markets, corporations lose their ability to influence the government into doing those things. I defy you to show me any examples other than Microsoft of a corporation gaining so much economic power that, without employing the government, it was able to exercise more power than the government currently enables it to.