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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"government",<br>"author":"brockstory",<br>"permlink":"anti-capitalist-deal-with-amazon",<br>"title":"Anti-Capitalist Deal With Amazon",<br>"body":"![ (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQnmCoiaQutWyTvdoMxnyDQcoPsvQiyv4cFRmzbVkTCGH\/image.png)So the massive tax breaks being offered to amazon by the state and local governments are taking anti-capitalism to another level. Mark Muro,<br> senior fellow at the Brookings Institution said such offers \u201cspeak(s) to the urgency in a lot of places to position themselves in the advanced economy. This looks like a fast way to accelerate one\u2019s entry into the industries of the future.\u201d This is just giving the democrats ammunition,<br> now when they say the rich are getting richer they are right. What people do not understand is that in capitalism the consumer is king,<br> he decides what should be produced,<br> by whom and how,<br> of what quality and in what quantity.\u201d This is what got me to really embrace capitalism,<br> I thought what I seen around me was the cause of capitalism. Now I know that we dont have capitalism,<br> as capitalism is \"private ownership\" of the means of production. Already if somebody else can tell you what to do with your property,<br> I would say it is not really yours you just live there. If you dont submit yourself to the commands of the consumers,<br> well you wont make it to far in society. If you have nothing to offer your fellow man,<br> then you better hope you know how to keep yourself alive. The entrepreneurs and corporations competing today to satisfy the needs of consumers must combine inputs,<br> such as labor,<br> raw materials,<br> machinery,<br> etc.,<br> to produce a good or service at a price the consumer is willing to pay. If they can turn a profit doing this,<br> they succeed; otherwise they fail. As Mises would point out,<br> consumers are the \u201creal bosses\u201d who can \u201cmake rich men poor and poor men rich.\u201d This is what people dont get,<br> I mean if you complain about a business or a product then what do you do? or at least you should stop buying from that person as they did not satisfy your needs. Giving Amazon a massive tax break and subsidies interferes in the consumers decision,<br> as Amazon has a better political advantage over his competitors. This will mean even if Amazon was less favored and loosing money,<br> they are still better off then another company. Under this scenario of targeted \u201ceconomic incentives,<br>\u201d a company can gain an advantage over its competitors courtesy of political privilege. Such advantages will help determine which businesses succeed or fail in the marketplace; and therefore influence who owns a greater share of the state\u2019s means of production and how they are used. One reason for politics being so involved in business really started with the Hoover administration,<br> where Hoover would like to suggest he was \"creating\" jobs. The problem with this as we all know government can only create or give what it takes,<br> if the government is going to create a job they are going to have to take a job from a sector that is supplying the consumers with what they need. Instead government taxes the consumers and other productive members of society,<br> this money then goes to fund somebody doing a job in the military,<br> roads,<br> bridges,<br> lumbering,<br> and other useless things. Of course this is the new day and age,<br> so government creates jobs by giving the biggest corporation not multiple this is just for Amazon. So now Amazon will grow at the expense of everyone else,<br> I dont think this was a power granted to the federal government.... But,<br> its at the state level... Consumers,<br> on the other hand,<br> are left with fewer choices and less sway over determining who controls the economy\u2019s scarce resources and to what purposes they are applied.\n\nIn other words,<br> power is shifted away from the masses and back to the elite class of government officials and the politically connected. Well thanks for reading guys! Please upvote,<br> follow,<br> and resteem",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"government\",<br>\"freedom\",<br>\"life\",<br>\"liberty\",<br>\"taxes\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQnmCoiaQutWyTvdoMxnyDQcoPsvQiyv4cFRmzbVkTCGH\/image.png\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"brockstory",
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