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Reasons that Americans do not like “big business”.

1) To start with, if at all possible, big businesses strive to become monopolies, or if that is not possible, duopolies, and if that is not possible, oligopolies. At the stage in their life cycle when they do this, they stifle competition, innovation, and seek a profit margin guaranteed by government cronies, at the expense of taxpayers.

2) Beyond this, when big business becomes a multinational corporation, they lose sense of their national identity, and can no longer be regarded as loyal to the United States. Their interests become similar to those of internationalists, if not exactly socialist internationalists, then similar enough for Americans to look at them distrustfully.

In effect, they are willing to undermine or even destroy America if there is a profit in it for them. In the meantime, they want to direct both American foreign and domestic policies to their benefit, not the American benefit.

3) Do not underestimate the dark side of the above. If a big business can earn an extra ten cents per unit profit, it will outsource production to another country, laying off hundreds or thousands of Americans, and lobby hard for “free trade” to keep the flood of foreign produced goods coming to America. If they cannot make money by outsourcing, then they want the cheap labor to come to America, with “open borders”.

As I like to point out, if slavery was legal, such businesses would gladly embrace it as “good for business”; and even grotesquely state that as such, “it is good for America, too.” With a straight face.