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Nah, it's way more murican to pretend that de facto monopolies established through regulatory capture and the legal bribery of campaign contributions are morall
by rectang 5y ago
Nah, it's way more murican to pretend that de facto monopolies established through regulatory capture and the legal bribery of campaign contributions are morally superior because although they own the government for all intents and purposes, they're ostensibly "private".
- hedora 5y agoIronically, the Boston Tea Party was less about taxation than it was about the Brits imposing an artificial monopoly on tea imports to the US. Of course, that's not how they teach it in elementary school...