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Matt Collins
10-28-2009, 07:40 PM
http://www.newsweek.com/id/219880

Dunedain
10-28-2009, 07:52 PM
The idea that the GOP would be considered anti-corporate is laughable.

jmdrake
10-28-2009, 07:56 PM
In other words the GOP may be rejecting fascism (corporatism)? Great!

Quote that backs this.

That's souring relationships on the Hill. Wisconson Rep. Paul Ryan, one of the House's most economically conservative members, says that he's talking tougher with corporations than ever before. The problem, he argues, is that industry has drifted away from its support of free enterprise. "As long as big business was defending free markets, we didn't have a problem," he says. The trend now is for individual businesses and industry groups to push for regulation that is structured in such a way that they come out ahead—or make competitors worse off.

Oh, and here's something to rub in the face of socialists.

On cap-and-trade, the stimulus, the bank and auto bailouts, and financial regulation, Republicans face, or have faced, substantial opposition from parts of the corporate community.

Austrian Econ Disciple
10-28-2009, 07:58 PM
The GOP needs to be the party of Ludwig Von Mises and Murray Rothbard.

The litmus test should be to ask every GOP member if they know who Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk is :p and what his contribution was.

dannno
10-28-2009, 08:02 PM
The idea that the GOP would be considered anti-corporate is laughable.

Nah, they can be anti-giant-government-backed-corporations and still be viewed as anti-corporate, and more correctly "pro-business".

Would take some extreme happenings though.

Andrew-Austin
10-28-2009, 08:13 PM
There are business/corporate interests that the democrats cater to, and business interests that the GOP caters to. You shouldn't lump them all in to one category and then selectively highlight the private interests that don't have good relations with the GOP.

For example the democrats obviously cater to green businesses, but the GOP caters to big oil.

1836er
10-28-2009, 08:23 PM
Here's a radical idea... what if, instead of having the federal government play favorites between the people/businesses it likes/dislikes, the government just treated everyone equally?

Remember what happened a few years ago (okay... more like 236 years) after the government gave a bunch of special privileges to the East India Company?

Austrian Econ Disciple
10-28-2009, 08:29 PM
Here's a radical idea... what if, instead of having the federal government play favorites between the people/businesses it likes/dislikes, the government just treated everyone equally?

Remember what happened a few years ago (okay... more like 236 years) after the government gave a bunch of special privileges to the East India Company?

Here's another radical idea. Repel the Anti-trust, Sherman, Clayton Acts, repel all subsidies, repel IP and Patent laws. Well, I guess radical for today, but in the 19th and early to mid 20th Century Classical Liberals (And to an extent those who voted for them, I can count on one hand the amount of Classical Liberalis/Libertarians/libertarians we've had in the past 60+ years) understood how Government interference reduces competition, increases price, reduces available goods, reduces standard of living, reduces liberty, violates Natural Law, disincentivizes productivity and innovation, and stifles economic growth.

I wonder if it would make news if we held a Book Bomb and dropped off 10,000 copies of Economics in One Lesson on the porch of Capitol Hill.......

heavenlyboy34
10-28-2009, 08:48 PM
Here's another radical idea. Repel the Anti-trust, Sherman, Clayton Acts, repel all subsidies, repel IP and Patent laws. Well, I guess radical for today, but in the 19th and early to mid 20th Century Classical Liberals (And to an extent those who voted for them, I can count on one hand the amount of Classical Liberalis/Libertarians/libertarians we've had in the past 60+ years) understood how Government interference reduces competition, increases price, reduces available goods, reduces standard of living, reduces liberty, violates Natural Law, disincentivizes productivity and innovation, and stifles economic growth.

I wonder if it would make news if we held a Book Bomb and dropped off 10,000 copies of Economics in One Lesson on the porch of Capitol Hill.......


I doubt they would read Hazlitt even if the book bomb happened. Those who are attracted to government tend to be the worst scum of society. :p

anaconda
10-28-2009, 09:25 PM
Both parties are fascist & pro corporate. The fact that, on any given day, one party may be perceived as slightly more or less fascist than the other should be highly irrelevant.