Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Lawrence Lessig: How Newt Gingrich Helped to Destroy Congress for Regular People" video.
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@simongold2739
Lol, I'm not convinced that that's your pfp. You sound more like a middle-aged man from the South. Give it up Cletus, I know you're there in front of the screen! (username checks out lol)
Also, to entertain the gibberish you spouted:
You're wrong. China's bureaucracy is enormous, especially because they have over 3x as many people as the United States. Corruption is rampant there, too.
And even if it wasn't, your logic stops short of finding any real solution.
If the government were small, what would stop Amazon from taking over every industry and then pricing things however it wants? What would stop Martin Shkreli from bringing insulin prices to $800+ per pen? What would stop companies from knowingly lending to people that didn't make enough to pay off the interest rates they advertised, causing a housing crash of 2008?
Why are all conservatives so naive?
You understand perfectly well that people are inherently self-interested, but suddenly when a company is formed,
everyone is altruistic and prefers to spend its money to create new products, instead of taking the easy way and pocketing its income?
Give me a fucking break. Even Apple hoardes its money offshore.
Government needs to be bigger than companies. Otherwise, we'll slip back into the 1920's, with a few wealthy men working their employees to literal death and crushing any new business ventures because the government is too small to force them to stop.
P.S. I need a source for your claim that teacher's unions are the biggest contributors. As of 2018, it was the Chamber of Commerce with the largest dollar amount.
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