cronyism

It’s a Big world. We Little Guys are just (barely) living in it – for now. Our nation’s Big Governments – are HUGE.

It can be said that the DC-Big Tech relationship is in the midst of a modern reprisal of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein.”

Because no matter how wrong DC is proven to be? As long as they are being paid by the wrong-doers to be wrong – the wrongness will always continue.

Welcome to the Banana Republic of America.

We need new bipartisan legislation on reigning in Big Tech, not bloated and ineffective infrastructure bills.

Net neutrality keeps Big Tech from paying for its massive bandwidth use, as a gift from Big Government.

We’ve reached the point where private companies are demanding crony favoritism – against the government.

How has Amazon Retail afforded the ability to lose money for decades – and still murder global retail? By running other businesses that make money – and using that money to subsidize Amazon Retail.

It was for decades awful enough when cronyism seekers gave politicians campaign coin in exchange for crony government policies

Google has government rig the private sector to its advantage. And it bigfoot crushes competitors. And failing that – it buys them.

Many self-described free marketeers vociferously oppose antitrust laws.

As Amazon milks the very last pennies from the multi-billion-dollar tax breaks Arlington, Virginia is giving Amazon for its half of the second headquarters – Amazon will all over again start looking for a new location to be bribed into making its new HQ. 

The federal government spends a whopping four trillion dollars per year.  And prior to the Donald Trump Administration’s most overdue and much appreciated mass regulatory reductions – the federal government regulated at a compliance cost of two trillion dollars per year.