People who complain about capitalism in the United States of America are ignorant and don’t know what they’re talking about. It has been years since the U.S. has had anything recognizable as capitalism.
Capitalism does not exist where there is government intervention in business. Capitalism cannot exist where there is a Federal Reserve and an Internal Revenue Service. Such institutions have been the tools of tyrants throughout history.
Activities that have been labeled “capitalism” are typically those of government and business engaged in thousands of criminal and unconstitutional conspiracies to control and defraud the people.
This is not capitalism, and it certainly is not free-market, free-enterprise capitalism.
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Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Service are tools for democracy, to stave off tyranny of the rich, you imbecile.
Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Whether the private businesses follow the laws or not doesn't make it non-capitalism.
A free market won't work. You have to regulate it, or some people will hoard so much, that there will be nothing left for the rest, and what's free about that? Some people, like the Orange Clown, are born with riches and have everything stacked in their favor from the start. Others are born with debts and are deep in shit from day one. What's free about that?
"Activities that have been labeled “capitalism” are typically those of government and business engaged in thousands of criminal and unconstitutional conspiracies to control and defraud the people. "
Now do you understand why people oppose capitalism?
"This is not capitalism, and it certainly is not free-market, free-enterprise capitalism."
Except the people who defend government and business engaged in thousands of criminal and unconstitutional conspiracies to control and defraud the people use those exact words.
So why aren't right-wing Fundamental ist pastors, preachers/their related organisations etc prepared to start paying tax: including the untold trillions backdated since 1776?
...and now watch Dick. E Squirmer backpedal faster than Sir Jesus Wiggins can cycle on water forwards.
"Capitalism does not exist where there is government intervention in business."
That's every country out then apart from a few tiny hunter-gatherer communities.
This chap sounds a bit like someone who says that Communism is a great system but it hasn't ever been done properly (it can't be, not with humans anyway.)
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That falls under the separation of church and state thing
It's precisely where there is no government intervention in religion, that the $70 billion a year in tax not coughed up by Christianity: certainly right-wing Fundamental ism's share of that, is why said preachers/pastors etc have no right to influence that country politically.
Capitalism is part of the US's politics.
No Representation without Taxation, fundies.
If they want to be able to: start coughing up those trillions .
I wonder why $cientology isn't allowed to call itself the Church of $cientology here in the UK (the Org down Tottenham Court Road in London: it's sign says 'Self-Improvement Centre'): why it has to pay tax on it's income: courses, Auditing, materials etc to HM Inland Revenue...?
And why the Co$ is on it's last warning in France: mainly due to it's financial shenanigans.
"Activities that have been labeled “capitalism” are typically those of ... businesses engaged in thousands of criminal and unconstitutional conspiracies to control and defraud the people. "
Yeah. We know. That's why we have the IRS and Fed Reserve.
He's right. We don't really have capitalism in our society. Capitalism is dependent on the existence of competion. Our economy is based off of mega corporations which have next to no competition, constantly request subsidies from the government and expect to be bailed out when they fail.
These ceos making millions of dollars a year would crash and burn if they actually had to say, provide quality products, fight to have the lowest price and provide the most attractive workplace to keep employees from jumping ship. Corporations spend huge chunks of change on advertising because they vainly think people aren't buying their garbage only because they haven't heard of it yet.
In short, corporations are doing everything in their power to avoid actually having to compete. If there is a more blatant example of rent-seeking behavior I haven't heard of it. People that claim our country would be truly capitalist if the government would just stop interfering are clearly brain dead. The government is the only thing stopping our economy from turning into a race to the bottom.
Sorry guys, corporate BS is a big pet peeve.
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