Legal Fiction

Brad asked:


The biggest monopoly obviously is the organization called government that (at the bare minimum) claims a monopoly on defense and which funds itself by taking money from people without their consent (through extortion, which it refers to as taxation). This entity is also the same one that is the only entity capable of creating a monopoly (which it can do by subsidizing a business, outlawing competition to a favored business, or granting that business a “right” to forms of imaginary “property” such as copyright and patents). The government has also invented the legal fiction of a corporation so that some businesses can escape liability for their debts and subsidized the creation of businesses that produce the weapons used by governments to kill innocent foreigners and even innocent people within their own territory.

How is it that leftists hold to an anti-monopoly, anti-war, anti-corporate position while supporting expanding the very entity that creates those problems? Besides that, why do leftists want the government to redistribute wealth to the poor when the government is the very entity that creates large levels of income inequality by granting special privileges and welfare checks and through heavy taxes on everybody, including a structure that penalizes people who try to increase how much money they earn (it is no wonder that the likes of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are strong supporters of “progressive” taxation)?

Tagged as: Governments, Income Inequality