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If you're so fucking down on "controlled economies", then EXPLAIN why you tolerate your national, state and local governments handing out subsidies and abatements like CANDY. America has fallen well into the
wrong kind of Socialism, in that it should have remained quite limited as a Socialist-regulation model of Capitalism.
Also, fucker, I never said I was Libertarian. I'm a citizen of the (now, "Old") Republic and I well admired the fine layer of Libertarian principles in there, with another layer of Socialism added in the 20th Century. Fuck, it WORKED! Capitalism was working JUST FINE in the style of Elbert Hubbard.
But, what that good enough for the rich? OHHHH NOOOO! The rich fuckers decided that they weren't making enough money paying their taxes, and they started an outright revolt against the supremacy of Populist control of the mechanisms of government. Now, the Republic has been literally destroyed, and an Empire stands in its place. The so-called government at all levels is actually a huge,
Corporate Profits Assurance Agency.
If you really want to know what you fuckbags lost, read Major General Butler's "war is a racket" speech excerpts. The industrialists had always sought to undermine the Republic to some degree, and in the early 1930s they attained significant control (largely from causing the largest financial crash in history at the time) ... which became essentially complete control in WWII with the outright dominance of what Ike called the "military-industrial complex". Instead of being citizens of a Republic, we've been subjects of an Empire ever since.
And you turds DARE to complain about "centrally-planned economies"! Shit, look around! Corporate welfare in the USA stands at 3 times the amount spent on all individual welfare programs in the nation. WHY THE FUCK DO WE GIVE MONEY TO THE WEALTHY?