“The system is designed to reward established businesses and discourage the start up.”
We don’t even have a real capitalist system where private investors are required to take a risk and are rewarded if success. Too much is based upon a rigged system where business gets taxpayer handouts, and taxpayers get nothing in return except some pie in the sky promise of job creation. Creating jobs and handing out investment capital should not be taxpayers responsibility unless we get a piece of the pie as do VCs.
We have a crony capitalist system where big business buys politicians and rig the system to exclude competition through mergers and acquisitions. Start ups and small business are squeezed out.
I get pxssed when I see what has happened to the USA economy and it isn’t just because of liberals. A huge part is due to inherent corruption and schmoozing because of the huge money in politics, where USA taxpayers are put on the hook for the global corporations who have no USA loyalty. We’re required to outright bail them out or subsidize them with interest free loans, and just like the NFL with their overpaid players and we forced to build their stadiums.
Once big business realized the inevitability of progressive control, they jumped into bed with them attempting to buy “protection”.
Look at this list of companies supporting Podesta’s Center for American Progress:
http://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/