morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000
clubs:
 ·AT&T Southwest
| reply to TK Junk Mail
Re: Bob Sullivan - another left wing reporter
said by TK Junk Mail  :Great - another left wing reporter with a hate on for capitalism. wow. you're really defending "unfees"?
no one is arguing limiting the price charged by companies (is that your misguided 'socialist' slam?), just that the price advertised should be THE PRICE plus federal, state, and local taxes required by law. no hiding the true price of a product or service. |
|
KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southwest
| The biggest Myth of all: That we have a "Free Market" economy.
We have a economy that likes to trumpet "Free Market" to keep regulations away so they can abuse at will, but there's nothing "Free" about it because a Free Market system ASSUMES that you have unlimited opportunity for competition as it's main check and balance.
And in many industries, this simply isn't the case.
The Free Market system is as much an unachievable Utopia as the so called Communist Market system. Both are totally impossible to achieve given human nature.
--
"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) |
|
Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| said by KrK :The biggest Myth of all: That we have a "Free Market" economy. We have a economy that likes to trumpet "Free Market" to keep regulations away so they can abuse at will, but there's nothing "Free" about it because a Free Market system ASSUMES that you have unlimited opportunity for competition as it's main check and balance. And in many industries, this simply isn't the case. The Free Market system is as much an unachievable Utopia as the so called Communist Market system. Both are totally impossible to achieve given human nature. the three major forms of running things(capitolism, Socialism, Communism) are all impossible in their most pure forms. because they are run by humans. and lets face it we can be evil greedy creatures when wealth and or power is to had.
--
[65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports |
|
s13
join:2007-12-06
USA
| reply to morbo
said by morbo :wow. you're really defending "unfees"? no one is arguing limiting the price charged by companies (is that your misguided 'socialist' slam?), just that the price advertised should be THE PRICE plus federal, state, and local taxes required by law. no hiding the true price of a product or service. Well as a very kind member astutely pointed out to me in a post similar to this one, you're a socialist if you don't support unfees. Stop promoting socialism, hippie!!  |
|
