Also, tyranny is the same as heavy, heavy, regulation. Look through history: when has any country ever experience tyranny through a lack of regulation? Never!
As an example of why regulation is bad, consider the 10% margin I mentioned earlier. Now we have regulations that don't allow us to use less than 50% margin. But who does this rule hurt? Banks and the profesh came up with options, derivatives, etc. that allow them to get the leverage they desire. So the regulation ends up doing nothing more than limiting the choices of the common people.
I am fine with a tax, a progressive income tax. The problem is when some central planner tells people what they should do. People don't need a central planner to protect them from their own voluntary choices. They may need a government to redistribute wealth and provide for a number of great goals like education, the military, space research, etc., but not to regulate the people.
If you want to end corporate influence in politics, stop the regulation! What company would bother spending money to influence a government that did not regulate? The government would no longer be in a position to do anything to help them.
You don't need to fear corporations unless they are using the government. We don't need regulations to protect us from corporations without government, we need less regulations to protect us from corporations in cahoots with government.
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