Should the United States be more about free enterprise?

Question

I believe we should get rid of all welfare except for the most down and out this includes corporate welfare. All businesses should have to make it on their own or go out of business, all subsidies should be stopped except for grants to colleges to study things of need, no bs. We should have a flat tax or a sales tax and eliminate income tax. the military spending machine should be reined in. Most of the federal government should be shut down and states should handle most things like education and roads but most of all regulations should be cut way back to allow the flourishing of business without having to jump thru all the hoops. And trade should be based on fairness with a policy of what they allow us to ship in and what tariff we should also allow to be shipped in here and at the matching tariff, it is just not right for them to block our products and our markets to be completely open to their products, some Republican designed this deal.

Answer 1

Free enterprise gives everyone a chance to get to the top. Some depend too much on the free and not enough on the enterprise though.

Answer 2

don't forget about corporate welfare, which also has absolutely nothing to do with free enterprise.

any tax cuts or any form of corporate subsidy is not only welfare, but socialistic in it's nature.

so are multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts - given to corporations with direct ties to the ruling govt.

cronyism, corruption, tax breaks (though never for middle class americans) trade deals, legal monopolies (which are against the law) all dot the american economic landscape and are all anti-free enterprise...