I am a free market conservative. I voted republican in every presidential election since 1968, except one. It is obvious that our government must live within its means and do so in a manner as not to interfere with a functioning free market economy. If we desire to take control of government, we must demand government carry out one of its primary functions; protecting free markets from tyranny, both public and private. We are vocal about defending it from public tyranny, but silent when it comes to tyranny in the private sector. “Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” Justice Louis Brandeis 1928 Today our focus seems to be only on the tyranny of government when it comes to free markets. We need t
The main threat to market competition is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few players. It is more profitable for them to maintain a small number of goods and services providers who dominate markets and therefore immunize themselves from competititon than to invest diversely and allow true, efficient competition. As long as americans want to feed their savings to this hole, simply driving money out of politics won't acieve anything. we need to open up investment.
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