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Originally Posted by BIGJake111
The government exists to police and collect taxes, everything else is best left deregulated and to the private sector, trust the consumer to bankrupt a dirty companies rather then the government.
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This sounds true in theory, but the reality is that you can leave things to the government who will do it inefficiently or you can leave it to the private sector who take you to the cleaners, because they effectively own the government. Politicians are now bought and sold to the highest bidder ("corporations are people too now my friend"), these guys moving for higher office can't afford to leave the corporate money on the table (or else their opponent will grab it quick) so they help push either regulation or deregulation that suits their special interest and hurts their smaller competitors. In the end your left with a handful of companies running each industry and the consumer is paying more and more to receive less and less. Or pay the government to do it at a loss in a way that makes no one happy. Pick your poison. In the end it's all about who can write the check to grease the wheels of crony capitalism.