Who hates corporations?

[dcan]

Nice post Dcan, I personally like Ron Paul. Theres definitely good and bad apples(corporations) out there , not that it justifies criticizing the bunch as a whole. I'm not a big fan of the outsourcing, and manufacturing going overseas, nor am I a fan of certain mega corps paying their laborers peanut wages, because the same individual still ends up on gooberment welfare and leech off the tax payers, while the corp still keeps its low wages and high profits.

Thanks. I don't mean to imply all corporations are like this. The vast majority are not. However, the ones we think of when we think "corporation" usually are, because the are the "big ones" that wield the influence. It seems to me that there is a point where a corporation ceases to be "just a company" and becomes "a significant force in the economic, political, and physical well-being of the citizenry." I believe it is at this point that government must take a larger role. Less regulation at the lower levels, more intrusive regulation as you move towards the higher, more dangerous levels. Companies are already held liable for the actions of their people, but often the liability is far out of line with the crime. We have all seen corporate officers get away with hundreds of millions or even billions in profits based on malicious negligence and/or malicious manipulation of a market only to eventually settle for a fine of $50 million or something equally insulting and no admission of guilt.

I'm all for societal mobility and loosening the restraints on entrepreneurship. I heard the other day about a woman who wanted to open an ice cream parlor in California, $20,000 in permits and $100,000 in legal fees just to open the doors. That is equally insane and unjust.