EDIT: I might have misunderstood the context of some of my parent comments, I do not believe that progressive tax brackets should be increase the tax rate on th

EDIT: I might have misunderstood the context of some of my parent comments, I do not believe that progressive tax brackets should be increase the tax rate on the entire income, just of the income over a certain limit. > They are anti-consumer in the sense that they raise prices without offering more or better goods in return. There is also to say that economy of scale is real, so (within bounds, I wouldn't meddle in guessing numbers) it is reasonable to ask the company making 10 billion per year to be more efficient per-dollar than a 2-persons shop. Regarding the EU I believe you are missing the point. Farming in the EU (outside of the Netherlands apparently) is almost by definition going to be a terrible business profit wise in an unregulated market; too little to automate too high cost of living for workers. The regulations in place exist because of an explicit consideration that keeping those industries alive (especially regional traditional products) is something with a value in and of itself. For sure many regulations have serious issues and some of them are plainly wrong, but arguing for anarcho-capitalism to me sound as reasonable as arguing for communism.