LordsFire
Internet Wizard
I'd be fine with having National Parks handed over to the states.Yeah, well your interpretation is meaningless, because that's not what your all powerful courts have said. Look at OSHA, FBI, EPA, other federal agencies enforcing standards. So no the 10th amendment is not as clear as you think it is, also the government building and running a factory is not exactly a power that it enforces on citizens, the government is allowed to own property, it has national parks there is nothing in the constitution that says it can own parks but it does.
And no, it doesn't matter what 'all powerful courts' have said. The law is plainly written, they've just refused to respect it. This clearly matters in what effective law becomes, but this is not a good thing, it is an evil thing.
Most of the directly governmental woes in the Fed come from the rejection of limited government and refusal to respect constitutional law.
Except that the government subsidizes the cost of its product at the taxpayer's expense. Then you end up with the government producing a car with 80% the quality of the privately-produced equipment, at 200% the actual cost, but selling it at 50% of the cost, thus both sabotaging the private sector and wasting money at the same time.As for your second argument, maybe the products they make will be substandard. That does not matter the quality of goods are not a constitutional issue. You are free to buy better quality products from private companies, the free market will ensure that those companies will stay afloat if the products the government makes are completely useless.
Sure, the sufficiently-wealthy will pay the premium for better cars, but the middle and lower classes will increasingly be forced to settle for inferior products they can 'afford' while the government wastes their money.
And here's the real crux of the problem, you have a perception of accountability that has zero connection to reality.Because then people can sue the government directly it is much easier to hold the government to task. Because right now you can't sue a company or the government to enforce the platform/publisher rule because you don't have standing. But if the government bans you for your politics you would most definitely have standing.
Let's take a current very real and very tangible example of a government organization handling a major concern, the CDC, and the handling of the Coronavirus.
Has it been competent? No.
Has it been effective? No.
Has it been destructive? Yes.
Has the CDC (particularly through Fauci) actively lied to us? Yes, and that has been directly admitted.
Has anyone in the CDC been held accountable, arrested, fired, even been put on paid administrative leave for their offenses? No.
Government bureaucrats are the next-best thing to untouchable. Are you even aware of the IRS scandal during the Obama administration, how they systematically targeted conservative political groups under Lois Lerner, and not a single person was jailed for it, or even fired?
Conversely, when it comes to the private sector, you can generally just stop doing business with a company if you don't like what they're doing. Sure, the effect of one person getting off Twitter or Facebook is very small, practically insignificant, but that is a greater effect than we've had from all the congressional hearings on the CDC, on the IRS under Lerner, etc.
Further, outside of a couple very specific tech monopolies (where again, the government is already failing to enforce the law), you can take your business to someone else in the same field, and help build up an alternative to whatever scummy organization. Over time, this builds the competitor up, and gradually tears the bad actor down.
And most importantly, personal freedom is not violated in this process. I think Facebook, Apple, Youtube, etc, have behaved in such scummy ways that everyone should be jumping ship to alternative platforms. But my will is not being dictatorially enforced, each individual gets to make their own decision where to host their content, and where to go to look for and watch content.
Unlike the ATF, FBI, CDC, etc, who have committed massive, gross offenses very publicly over the last half-century, and have only continued to grow in power and influence, rarely even having individual members censured, fired, or jailed.
Where was this 'much easier to hold the government to task' when Ashli Babbitt's shooter was 'cleared of any wrongdoing?
Why are the political prisoners from the January 6th riots still in jail?
Why have the Epstein/Maxwell records been sealed, rather than a new mass of trials for people who went to Epstein's island been started?
Why hasn't the DA who pushed false charges against Kyle Rittenhouse himself been imprisoned?
Why did Biden get away, and still continue to get away with, with his clear corruption in the Ukraine and with China?
At least in the private sector, when a company is behaving horrendously, some people will move to an alternative. When the government monopoly business is behaving horrendously, you're stuck with what you've got.