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We are talking about Multinational Mega corps that hide most of the money outside of US. They are an entities with a flag sticker attached to forehead. >The in
by me_me_me 7y ago
We are talking about Multinational Mega corps that hide most of the money outside of US. They are an entities with a flag sticker attached to forehead.
>The interest of an American corporation is definitionally beneficial to at least some Americans
Benefit of few at cost of majority of the nation, thats good???
>The interest of a Russian dictator is untied to the interests of any Americans.
It is as you say "beneficial to at least some Americans".
>corporations have nowhere near the amount of resources to bear on influence operations as states have.
And that's why they pay even lower corporate taxes now, the biggest players skip paying taxes altogether through loophole that somehow no one wants to ever fix. Its common knowledge that Apples, Googles, Facebooks and other Amazons pay laughable amounts. And with tax breaks and incentives the are getting more money then they pay[1] in its nature its beyond grotesque.
Lockheed martin selling jets to Saudis so they can claim a new better jets need to be developed. Directly working against interest of the state so they can milk the middle case even more. That is literally selling arms to both sides so neither will win so you can stuff your pockets with blood money indefinitely.
Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that what you are saying is that state is this big monolithic structure that holds vast amounts of power. It has power over corporation as it can pass laws, and it controls the biggest army in the world. True, but in reality all of it controlled through 'handful' of politicians elected via popularity contest ergo if you have enough money you will buy yourself a ticket in. And who provides the money? Interest groups, lobbyists via more or less opaque means (superPACs or dark money pools).
So you can claim that the puppet is the biggest and strongest but its on strings and groups that holds those strings are in control. And no matter what puppet will dance as its told to no matter what.
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2018-taxes-some-of-americas-biggest-companies-paid-little-to-no-federal-income-tax-last-year/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2018-taxes-some-of-americas-big...