Govt is the only thing that remains when society collapses. If businesses were the real parasites & the real slave drivers, then only businesses would be left when everything else is destroyed. But businesses only exist in great abundance when an economy is healthy & free & in places where people want to live because they aren't being coerced & stolen from.
The political class works to ensare businesses into collecting taxes from employees for them, or reporting on independent contractors for them, or collecting info on customers for them, or into imposing some new ESG or DEI policy. If they don't play ball they get "regulated" out of business, if they do then the govt rewards them by regulating their competitors out of existence. So those who play the Washington game are rewarded for some time, until someone comes up with a greedy & destructive policy that will eat them too.
There really isn't much ambiguity to the matter at all.
Jeff Swann
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2024-04-03 02:14:06
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