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sounds good cant work
Debate Score:9
Arguments:7
Total Votes:10
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Get government out of the economy

It seems to me that the answer to everyone’s political problems, is that government is essentially controlling our economy. The left says they believe corporations are buying and corrupting politicians, the right says they believe the government is forcing the corporations to buy politicians in order to survive extreme regulations and taxes. The left doesn’t like that the government influences wor...ld policies in order to secure oil. The right doesn’t like it that we are forced to look in other countries for oil because Environmental lobbyists have bought politicians. The left doesn’t like it that American jobs are going overseas, the right doesn’t like it that companies feel they have no choice but to go overseas. The left doesn’t think the rich give enough the right doesn’t think anyone should be forced to “give” and so on and so on. So what’s the answer…?
Make it illegal for government to be involved in our economy and that has to include the inability to FORCE people to pay taxes as well as the inability to borrow. The only way (I can see) to stop corruption is to make it illegal for government to regulate, subsidize, borrow, bail out and tax. The only way for the people to control corporations is if we as consumers have the last say (by way of how we spend our money). For example right now, if we want to boycott a company (they poison children, don’t pay their employees well, destroy the environment, whatever) the government will just come in and bail them out. Corporations have no accountability to consumers when that happens they owe their success to politicians and not because they do the right thing, provide a desired product or manage their company correctly, which is how they are suppose to find success. If we give the power to the government to “fix” everything then we also give them the opportunity, and essentially permission, to be corrupted.

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In my personal opinion the government should prevent a single corporation from completely cornering a certain market as that prevents small businesses from forming and kills jobs. and I don't suppose theirs any thing wrong with work place safety regulations either. But beyond That they should but out and let the damn CEOs run their own damn companies

Side: sounds good
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Government in the economy is not the problem, it is what the government does when it is there that starts the problem.

There has to be something to keep the economy in check. If there is not, corporations will have too much power.

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DevinSeay(1120) Disputed
2 points

It's called Capitalism. When the government interfers with the economy again and again, the nation will slowly start to depend on the government more then themselves.

Side: sounds good
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If government wasnt "keeping the economy in check" then corporations would answer to and be controlled by the educated consumer (the public). If government does bad things when its involved in the economy then we should stop it from being possible.

Side: sounds good
Orcris(63) Disputed
1 point

The problem with this is that the consumer often isn't educated, and there aren't enough educated consumers to offset those who aren't. Take the software patent situation for example. Tech giants like Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are abusing the system anticompetitively. So far, the government hasn't stepped in (although that could change, since there is a seen director of the patent office), but the situation is so bad that it is impossible to build a mobile device without infringing on some company's patent. If consumers were more educated, they would be demanding that these companies only use patents when they are actually being negatively impacted by someone stealing their innovation.

Also, when there is too much deregulation, the economy suffers as much as when there's too much regulation. Take Russia is the '90s. Boris Yeltsin deregulated the economy too much, and it collapsed. It took somebody like Putin, who is virtually a dictator, to get the economy back on track.

Side: cant work
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You get a bill in the mail from Apple saying "pay for an iPad" you never ordered an iPad and don't want one.

You get a bill in the mail from the IRS saying "pay for social services" you never ordered any service from them and don't want one.

Who's letter do you feel more comfortable ripping up?

You rip up Apple's letter, they can't force you to buy that iPad.

You rip up the IRS' letter, they use force to make you buy their services.

Government Commerce/Keynesian Economics = Violence and Force

Private Commerce/Austrian Economics = Peace and Prosperity

Side: sounds good