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First, that bolded part is part of the hammer. Second, government cannot act without crushing someone. It inherently cannot do things consensually, unlike businesses (cause if everyone consented, there'd be no need for the law). Third, people don't need to be encouraged by government to work...

They kill people a lot less than governments do, was what I said. Wars, the Holocaust, Holodomor, Stalin's purges, Cultural Revolution, and I could go on. Those are just the big examples. Heart disease and obesity in the US is hugely caused by the bullshit food pyramid that was pushed as...

Um, not letting people have property is communism. That's not an expansive definition, and a wealth cap is a significant step towards it. You can take issue with the slippery slope part, but noting that limiting wealth is a step towards communism is pretty straight forward. No, government...

... I don't want a liberal order. I want a libertarian one, first of all. They are similar, but also have major differences (liberalism is way to happy with wars and regulation). And no, they don't go hand in hand. Yes, some big businesses like the big state, but I have nowhere near the problem...

... This thread isn't about natural monopolies is my major point. Yes, they do exist. No, google AdSense isn't one (for one major reason: facebook having such a big market share). Amazon is a better example of what you are trying to describe, but... people still compete with it. Namely Walmart...

No, there's so much talk about taxing the ultra wealthy into the ground because we always don't like them. This dislike isn't new, it isn't special, and it isn't suddenly now justified. Second, we aren't talking about economic monopolies here, the proposal was to stop people seizing political...

As we see, another person pushing at capitalism, wanting just a little bit more communism, because surely this time it'll work? Every time a capitalist compromises, it leads to a worse country, more problems, and the communist saying "We just need a little bit more, this time it'll work! I...