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If You Can Successfully Get SNAP Out of KFC, I’ll Listen
Until that obvious and flagrant and massive fraud is remedied, I’m afraid any argument for more government action is laughably absurd
It’s hard to say whether Sohrab Ahmari is a distributist or whether he ignores the problem of Hudge and Gudge, but based on this laudatory essay, he seems ignorant that the biggest problem with big government is that big business will use it to enrich both.
If government is big and centralized, it presents a ready pot of money and power that the unscrupulous, like the corporations rightly demonized in Tyranny, Inc., can raid for their own enrichment and desires.
It appears Ahmari wants more regulation to deal with the corporate tyranny that has become a plague in our country. That’s fine, but it assumes the corporate tyrants aren’t tyrants in the first place because they have access to the true tyrants in the Beltway. If we take away access to big government, big business can’t become tyrannical. The best way to take away access to big government: shrink it.
The bolded sentence above is, obviously, the point of argument here. I strongly believe that businesses are, by the vortextual and unsteady nature of the marketplace, unstable: if left alone and not…
