Heads they win, tails you lose.
Forget the rulebook, they make the rules.
Wanna compete? You'll be rejected.
Get with Kronies, they're Konnected!
“Crony Capitalism” is, in fact, socialism.
“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.”
— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850
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The issue isn’t Big Business, it if the Big Government/Big Business Industrial Monopoly Complex.
Big Business will lobby for laws that on the surface appear to “Punish them evil big businesses” but in reality are nothing but Bureaucratic roadblocks for all their small to medium sized competition whom they wouldn’t be able to compete with if the playing field was level.
One has to wonder how many Bills that on the surface seem to punish big business but actually when you examine them closely indirectly benefit them by eliminating their competition.