Comments by "dangerouslytalented" (@dangerouslytalented) on "Leaked: Republicans Scared of Occupy Wall Street" video.

@worldbridger9 You think monopolies are caused by government? All a large organisation needs to create a monopoly is ONE chokepoint, a key railroad, a supply of an essential resource, access to a key market, and government regulation is just ONE of those chokepoints, one that is not actually used all that much.A large business HATES competition and will crush it using whatever means is at its disposal, and often government gets in the way of doing this.
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@worldbridger9 I disagree, there should not be an overall hard limit, but there should be progressive tax rates, so when incomes get ridiculous, then the tax rates on those incomes also get ridiculous. That way people are more likely to put the money back into their businesses instead of taking money out of the businesses as profit. That is how it worked between the 40s and 70s, and that time was the time of greatest growth for the American and world economy.
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When you can't pick the enemy's argument apart, pick apart their grammar. That is all he does, he changes the words around, to make words with a "bad" perception into ones with a "good" perception. It is all basic Orwellian stuff.
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@therrydicule It is very expensive to set up to create computer chips, but they are very cheap to actually make. Here the set up costs make it so that it is nearly impossible for new players to enter the market.
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@kitsustar17 If the hedge fund managers were paid for performance, then they would have to pay everybody else like a trillion dollars because they crashed the economy.
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@eBe4IXcept .. .the answer is : THERE IS NO FREE MARKET when there are massive corporations running amok without any government oversight.
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@BorgKing001 A sliding scale... The problem right now is, that productivity (profit per worker) has gone way up, but worker compensation (apart from executive compensation) is remaining stagnant. The workers should be able to share in this shouldn't they? Instead it is the executive pay that is the only thing going up, often despite the fact that profits are not going up
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@donkiddick08 Even in Australia we all know about Frank Luntz. In my media course this year we had a whole lecture on him alone, how he is able to manipulate the very language itself.
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@worldbridger9 They can do what they did to Standard Oil.
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@lilpoindexter Morality is not on the Republican side.
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@therrydicule ... oligopolies do not stop at murder...
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@Otzmatron Actually Luntz uses focus groups and a thesaurus to try to change the discussion by using "positive" words instead of "negative" words. Luntz is all about word games.
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@majorgeek ... well regulated capitalism is the key, with certain parts of the economy run by private enterprise, with certain other parts run completely by government, and some portions of the economy run by government and private enterprise together, and some by government and private enterprise in competition.
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