Comments on: Can’t They Read?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:44:43 +0000

It’s damn annoying when people complain about “regulation of the private sector” and including corporations in that sector. They are creatures of the government, not the marketplace.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:34:34 +0000

Indeed, the government grant of limited liability to the investors in corporation is the biggest intervention in the free market of any government intervention. Unlike every other business, the owners of Big Business aren’t personally liable for the corporation’s debts and deeds. Yet somehow this intervention, worth trillions of dollars to investors (since fewer people would invest if they had to risk their own personal assets to do so, thereby driving down the price of stocks), gets overlooked every time that someone rants about “government interference in the free market”. Funny how that works, isn’t it? 😈

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:59:04 +0000

We’ll have a “free market” when government stops chartering corporations, and lets them live or die like everyone else in business.

By: ellroon

ellroon — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:26:31 +0000

Exactly. Vote for Republicans, they want to join government to destroy it. Then we’ll REALLY have a ‘free’ market etc….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:37:57 +0000

It doesn’t have to be a tax, per se, it only has to generate revenue. It the bill generates revenue, it has to be originated in the House.

The GOP doesn’t want anything to pass, and we all know it. They want to prove that government can’t work.

By: cookiejill

cookiejill — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:57:20 +0000

Oh…and the GOP hates children too. They blocked the Children’s Nutrition Bill.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_school_nutrition

Where the f**k (pardon my “Finnish”) are the Democrats?

By: cookiejill

cookiejill — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:51:31 +0000

Been following this and I think Bill Marler, Esq. has some good points up on his “legal” blog.

“…However, I think there is a very strong argument to be made that Section 107 was never intended to be a tax, and in fact, is much more like a fine or a levy upon a facility that relates to reinspection of facilities involved in outbreaks or facilities outside the borders of the United States.”

http://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/when-is-a-tax-not-a-tax-when-it-is-not-a-tax/