"Private companies can do what they want" - I completely agree but how private is Amazon when they get $3.7 billion in tax payer funded subsidies?

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    [–]dontbuyanylogos[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm with Ron Paul on this one

    I would also boycott companies that refused to serve people based on race, religion or sexuality.

    [–]proc0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    This made me think, why aren't subsidies buying shares for people? Sure we bail you, but we should own the equivalent in decision making power, and stocks evenly distributed for when companies start making profit.

    Crazy really, it's like we're living the worst part of both worlds, communism and capitalism lol.

    subnote: communism would be much worse, but even the capitalist part of the system seems to be shit right now.

    [–]dontbuyanylogos[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    devils advocate: subsidizing Amazon encourages a powerful company to keep doing business in your country which creates wealth and jobs

    [–]bjam27 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Private companies cannot conspire to bankrupt their competitors, neither can they negligently violate contracts.