Why the "supposed" more capitalist countries use most extracapitalist strategies to manipulate free market?

Question

Are they really capitalists or just they are a big mafia? examples: granting their producers, imposing economic blockings to enemy countries, imposing taxes to incomings, invading poor countries, imposing restriction to inmigration, etc, etc.

better shut up dosent, cause you don´t know anything about capitalism theory obviously. And you are so wrong with my origin, es obvio que no hablas español... you seem the kind of guy who support the invasion let your government fool you with the democracy tale. Well, you will not want to come to my country cause we simply gonna kick your white asses if you think to invade us,stupid mariner!!

Answer 1

AND WHY DO YOU INSIST SPEAKING ENGLISH IN A SPANISH BLOG?

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Answer 2

I will try to answer your question using your examples ... keep in mind that I do not express any personal support either way:
granting their producers - cannot understand this one, do you mean subsidies and preferential tax rates? If so, these are to support the growth of companies that will benefit the economy or the society;

imposing economic blockings to enemy countries - the arms embargoes, tariffs and sanctions are hard decisions for any country to make, but generally they use them to protect their own companies from losing out against cheaper or superior goods from abroad

imposing taxes to incomings - without an income tax, societies have no way of making the rich help the poor and bolstering the combat against poverty related benefits systems; and companies never have their revenue taxed except for the sales tax and the profit taxes which apply equally to all companies.

invading poor countries - this is not common practice, but when it does happen, it is because they want the regime of that country replaced with a more supportable one - a difficult decision to make and inevitably a cruel and selfish one (at least in part...there may also be humanitarian or security factors involved), but in theory the World Wars & many attrocities could have been prevented if the regime had been removed just before it started to turn nasty.

Imposing restriction to inmigration: this is something that countries do to enable them to be selective about the kind of people and the kind of skills that they know will enhance the economy - nobody wants to have to let people who are unable to work or criminal or unlikely to work in, nor do they want to have a million of their own people pushed out of their jobs and into extreme poverty / replaced with foreigners.

Overall, it is hard to say whether or not the US and UK are more free-market capitalist than others or not. The items you mention are things that all governments do. The US & UK probably do less subisidising, discriminatory taxing and trade restricting than other countries do, but on the other hand, they are by no means free market capitalist societies. For example, state-owned industry, co-ops and non-profit organisations still exist. And the number of laws that tell people and companies what they can and cannot do is probably much higher than in the average country.

So yes, extracapitalist stragtegies are used when it makes sense for the government to use them, and while they may not always make the right decisions here, they are only trying to protect their own people and businesses, while also taking part in further free-trade talks.

Answer 3

hmmmmmm i just answered your arms question, i can see now you're patently obviously eastern european probably from the emerging nations, bosnia or chechnya maybe? ok ill answer the queries in this one at a time.
1 capitalists = a country or organisation designed to make money
2 imposing economic blockades = a better solution than all out war don't you think?
3 taxes = here in england they exist to pay for services to the public, ie education, the health service, social security.
4 invading poor countries? = possibly you mean Iraq, well that was to overthrow Saddam Hussein a madman recently found guilty and sentenced to death for mass genocide of his own people
5 immigration restritions are proposed here = limiting the amount of people who intend to come here from new members of the EU states simply because they have been told they willbe able to claim all social security benefits here, WITHOUT having paid the taxes we british have paid to enable them to claim it with legitimate reason, in other words they want something for nothing, and now the restrictions are being proposed they're bitching about it. well sorry, there is only so much money available here, and as far as i am concerned i paid taxes and national insurance for over 30 years to be entitled to it, the immigrants didn't. so no sympathy from me there.........

Answer 4

Dosent c. Saddam did gas people. But I wish people will cut down on the "OWN" bit. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, and the Yanks were set to drive him out, the Kurds sided with the Yanks. Also when they decided to invade the second time, the Kurds joined. Now, in my books, that is not "own" people. If Germany was invading England, and the Scottish consistently join them, I doubt if we will call them our "own" people. Own people tend to be better behaved, don't you think? If I was a leader of a mixed country like the UK and I spot such underhand trickery, I will gas them, period.

Answer 5

Well the freer the market the freer the people. I guess the answer is because we are battling within ourselves with socialist and communist elements. Still its a fact free markets generate economic prosperity socialism generates dependency and economic stagnation. Why do you think so many people want into the U.S.

It's not a matter of resources either. Just look at Japan and Swizterland neither of them have a lot of resources. But they have strong economies.