Let me first say that if you're referring exclusively to businesses that benefit from collusion with the govt., I'm with you all the way.
But I think you're applying your thoughts to anyone who owns a business, no matter how small. Incidentally, size doesn't matter, as long as the business in question isn't receiving corporate welfare or otherwise benefiting from some regulation or law. A big business is simply a formerly small business that did something right.
But maybe you'd do well to think smaller. I am, or at least I was, a drywall contractor (until the economy tanked.) There isn't a single word in your post that applies to me. Like all non-govt-assisted businesses, I offer to provide a service for a fee. The contract is perfectly voluntary for my customer and me. He doesn't have to accept my bid and I don't have to take the job. This is the essence of capitalism. Capitalism is just another word for freedom. Two people can freely enter into a contract, exchange or association. No third (govt) party is needed. The customer is smart enough to make his own decision without outside help as am I.
There. That's our whole system or at least, that's what it would be, if your beloved govt didn't intervene. That's the system, which you seem to loathe, but which has resulted in the greatest wealth and prosperity, even for the poor, that the world has ever seen. I've just laid it out in a couple of sentences.
Let me now quote a couple of your sentences:
"The citizens factually need to provide for themselves through taxation. Our state officials are obligated to distribute products and "services" equitably throughout society, and especially encourage individual moral growth."
Do you really fail to see the contradiction in that first sentence? They don't "provide for themselves" by hiring a thug (IRS agent, politician, bureaucrat, cop) to mug (albeit, legally) people, at the point of a gun, taking from them what they've earned. "State officials" are just average, ordinary individuals. They're just like you and I. If someone tried to mug me like they do, well, let's just say that's an encounter he wouldn't survive. You write in your post about how the law doesn't apply to corporations. Does the law, "Thou shalt not steal" apply to govt agents? And do you really think that being the recipient of the fruit of someone else's labor "encourage(s) individual moral growth?" Aside from the fact that's it's no one's job to encourage anyone else's moral growth, except parents/their kids.
"Superficially, corporate employment can resemble cushy government jobs. But the social effect is exactly the opposite. Instead of working with harmonious social representatives, we now work for tyrants who monopolize and privatize EVERYTHING they can."
"Harmonious social representatives?" Why do you insist on assigning such virtue to govt agents and such vice to non govt agents? You don't acknowledge that all people are basically the same? Sure, there may be a few angels working for the govt; just like there are a few angels who don't work for the govt. But I've yet to meet anyone in either camp I'd describe in such glowing terms. By the way, "tyrants" have the power to compel. And while govt agents have that power, business owners do not. Any employee is free to quit and make his own job as we business owners have done.
Another thing you'd do well to appreciate is that there's no such thing as "public funds/resources." You've got some sort of chicken/egg thing going with private vs. public money or property or whatever. Nothing is public that wasn't private, first. The govt has nothing it didn't steal, at bayonet point, from the guy who earned it.
Yes, capitalists want to "sell you whatever they want." Try to remember that you're not forced to buy it. Whatever you want, if you don't want to buy it from a capitalist, it's your job to build it/provide it for yourself. For example, if you don't want to hire me to do your drywall job, do it yourself.
Well, that's as brief as I can be. I'd appreciate a response. Notice how I've responded to your specific arguments and refrained from personal attacks and name calling. I'll expect the same from you.
Thanks,
Scott Stuart
