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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Good news: you've gone bankrupt. No more need to worry now.
The fundamental difference between private entities and governments are that private entities live and die based on choice of the consumers; whereas governments live and die based on mandatory taxes. This is why private entities go out of business all the time and have very little funds to oppress, and it's also why governments never go out of "business" and have overwhelming funds to oppress anybody.
The cost-benefit analyses governments perform are almost non-existent. The closest governments get to them are politicians trying to keep their jobs and security forces keeping the taxes uninterrupted. If the Kochs acted like governments, we would laugh ourselves into convulsions at how quickly they lost all their capital.
It should be noted that if a private entity were granted a legal and violence monopoly, it would become a government. What we're really talking about here is if it's better to have entities that can't force you to do stuff or entities that can.
Call me a skeptic, but I haven't seen many tobacco companies go out of business, even with harsh government regulations. So I think I'll just go about my business selling Hello Kitty vanilla-bonbon flavored healtharettes to (private) preschoolers. Actually I might start a couple preschools myself to put my excess liquid assets to good use, free cigs for the first semester for all 3-year contracts!
On a more serious note, governments need popular vote to keep their business running, a government that does not allow this is a flawed one.
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