Some things appear to change very little indeed.| Submit your comments on this article |
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| Taking Away Special Treatment For Woke Corporations Is Not ‘Authoritarian’ |
| 2022-04-24 |
| [ZH] For many years now I have been pointing out that there is a false public perception of the relationship between governments and corporations. In the past the belief has been that government is supposed to keep private business in check while private business is supposed to limit government intrusion through the assertion of property rights. But when it comes to major corporations there is no such game of balance. In reality, international conglomerates like Disney generally do whatever they please because they are PARTNERS with government. For whatever reason, certain companies are afforded special treatment by state and federal institutions and what this does is create problems. This is not a free market system, rather, it is socialist and monopolistic. Subsidies and incentives can sometimes be used to encourage business growth, but when they are afforded to only a tiny handful of mega-corporations the result is the opposite; the growth of competition is stifled and small to medium businesses will never be able to compete with the giants that have already garnered government protection. It’s interesting to me that the political left, which was once supposedly anti-big business, is now suddenly so enamored with corporate oligarchy to the point that they rabidly defend it as long as those companies espouse woke rhetoric. What this confirms is something that conservatives have always known — That leftists don’t have any concrete principles or morals, they only care about winning no matter the cost. I 2020 I published an article suggesting a potential solution to Big Tech and woke corporate censorship of conservative ideas: That solution would be for conservative state governments to take away the very incentives and subsidies that they often use to entice these businesses into setting up shop within their borders. That is to say, all they have to do is take away the special goodies that these corporations never should have been handed in the first place. At the time, I thought that no state government would actually have the guts to carry out such a strategy, but things have changed. Corporations like Disney have now crossed the line into the realm of open indoctrination; asserting that they will upend any Florida law that prevent the sexualization and indoctrination of children into the leftist fold. Disney picked a fight; they strutted around as if they owned the state, and now they are paying the price by losing the very subsidies that made them successful. This in itself is not the overt use of government power as a means to oppress the rights of businesses. These corporations have no right to such subsidies and they are not entitled to special treatment. Taking it away is not a violation of any business’ rights or of private property rights. Subsidies are something that certain corporations have come to expect, and maybe that should change. In my recent article on Elon Musk’s ongoing plan to buy out the leftist hive mind known as Twitter, I made this argument: The rest at the link |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #3 /\ Some things appear to change very little indeed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-24 10:07 |
| #2 Big business in effective partnership with government is pretty much the definition of fascism. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-04-24 09:49 |
| #1 My suggestion to Businesses. Stick to Business and leave the Social, Political BS to the radicals. They are just trying to stir the pot and divide us during elections and/or for Blackmail $$$$$$. Exxon is a good example of how businesses should handle the inciteful for profit radicals. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-04-24 06:28 |