By weakening government, don't you give more power to corporations, therefore establishing the New Fascism?

Power Corrupts! Tyranny is the result.

Corporations have too much Power. That is Why we have laws to prevent monopolies. The principles behind those laws Must be Enforced. What we have here is a Failure of the Justice System.

The Power of Government is Limited by the Constitution for the Same Reason. Competition limits the Power of Corporations. WHAT limits the Power of Big Government?

We MUST follow the Constitution if we want to prevent Tyranny as our Founders did.

It has Nothing to do with Salary.

Politicians are Servants! Limit their Power. Limit the Size of Government.

Corporations can't take over the government. They have no power.

Best case scenario, they stay at the top of the food chain, but with new technology, there is always a threat of a new company emerging and reaching the top.

Plus, most of those corporations aren't specialists anyway, so despite having a great deal of monetary worth, they are not nearly as important or influential to our society as the general entirety of businesses and capitalism in the country anyway.

I mean, think about it. Facebook is pretty big right now. But if we eliminated it, not too many people would care. Even Microsoft and Disneyworld could disappear and be replaced in a couple days.

Corporations are no threat. All they do is supply our demand until there is no more demand. And if the IRS chooses, it can probably point a freaking deathbeam at any one of them. It is the government that we need to fear, not our potential for success in America.

If you studied the issue, you would find that the power corporations have is THROUGH government, not DESPITE government. It is through graft (like Dodd's sweetheart loans from the mortgage companies he oversaw) and campaign financing that corporations can act, and the path that allowed them the access to that government power was progressive government expansion through distortions of the plain language of the Constitution.

An example. Some liberal pratts want more efficient waffle irons and thus craft legislation to do so. In response, waffle iron manufacturers spend money on a lobbyist to protect themselves from the ravages of government. The greedy liberal politicians involved get some money and support laid on them to go easy on Big Waffle Iron, and the Waffle Iron lobbyist proposes some changes and amendments to the legislation, which increases regulation, but which also stifles competition by making the start-up costs too expensive for anybody to challenge Big Waffle Iron hegemony over the business.

Both the politician and Big Waffle Iron benefit, and, as usual when government "does something", the people get screwed by having to bear the cost of the extra regulation and diminished competition caused by government action.

If the liberal politicians in this case had abided by the Constitution, then the consumer would not have been able to be screwed by the corporation.

Corporations just don't have that kind of power on their own, it is only when government gets involved where it doesn't belong that they have access to that power.

Grok?

When the government is propping up the corporations, The simple answer is no.Without government the corporations are forced to answer to the people. You don't like their product? don't buy it. When no one buys it they go away. Think of every single post apocalyptic sci fi you have ever seen. In 99% of them there is some huge company in bed with the government and together they ruin the world.

Yes i know I am talking about movies here, but let us be honest for a moment. If not for the government propping them up, tons of huge corporations would have gone under in 2008.

Corporations can make campaign donations, not regulations. You seem a bit confused. Corporations and lobbyists give "gifts" to spouses of elected officials or find other ways to buy them.

Of course people in private corporations make more. The idea is that public service is done almost charitably, not for the money. These officials get plenty of perks and they don't need to be successful to keep their jobs, just have successful campaigns.

The corporations do not use guns to put people in jail who do not use their product or work for them

The government does.

I disagree. By weakening government, you give corporations less access to government, and less ability to influence government policy. Businesses rely on their stooges in government to do their bidding.

Yes.

no that is not how it works,