2007-11-20 08:35:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What you are suggesting is communism.
2007-11-20 08:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by benni 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
American companies should run American companies. But they should do so responsibly by providing adequate wages and benefits to employees and take care to make sure they don't pollute the environment or add to the growing problem of man-made global climate change. And American companies should run their companies on their own. These giant corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes (a burden to the American taxpayers) and they need to stop collecting Corporate Welfare aka subsidizies which are also a burden to the American tax payers. If you started a business and it failed, would the government bail YOU out? NO! The US government spent $92 BILLION in 2006 alone on companies with PROFITS in the millions and billions of dollars. "Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress granted the authority to spend funds to directly subsidize industry, or to enter into joint ventures with automobile companies, or
to guarantee loans to favored business owners. Yet, since the New Deal, by applying very expansive readings of the General Welfare Clause, the Supreme Court has allowed Congress to redistribute wealth from taxpayers to favored business interests. Some spending that benefits businesses, such as infrastructure spending and the funding of courts to enforce contracts, also benefits the population as a whole. But those are expenditures that benefit all companies and
citizens generally and are usually not geared to a specific activity or industry. The programs of the corporate welfare state, on the other hand, do not fit this definition."
2007-11-20 16:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by It's Your World, Change It 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The less power a government has, the better.
And there's a difference between regulization (which is democratic model) and running a company. Learn it to better understand the question you're asking.
2007-11-20 16:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by kt_b_blue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should the people regulate the companies?
Should people control what crap is poor into our air or our water in the name of profit?
You betcha!
However, that doesn't mean that the government has to RUN the companies, it just means that it has to regulate - and we get to fight over how much regulation is required vs. how much the regulation cripples growth.
Remember, American car companies were pleading poverty when the law made them install seat belts. They lost ALL credibility when they did that.
2007-11-20 16:39:18 · answer #4 · answered by Elana 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen or heard any Democrat say they wanted to run American companies. And you haven't either. So stop with the Rush Limbaugh bullshit personal opinions.
2007-11-20 17:09:21 · answer #5 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think you got that backwards, American companies are running government. That is the Democratic/Republican model and it isn't going to change. K-street Rulz!!!
2007-11-20 16:41:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the government owns the companies what you have is communism.
If the companies run the government you have what we have today.
The best way is for the companies to run themselves with the government watching over them to protect the people.
2007-11-20 16:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Rick S 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To a certain extent, yes laise fairs will only result in monopolies...Governments should stay out for the most part save for anti-trust laws.
2007-11-20 16:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There would be no American companies.
2007-11-20 16:38:36 · answer #9 · answered by SFC_Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure, they would be bankrupt within a few years.
2007-11-20 16:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Bubba 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋