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Originally Posted by rebel23
alot of big businesses in America are reliant on "corporate welfare", Haliburton is one of those, they would stand to lose alot under a Ron Paul presidency as he would try and limit the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned against.
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The other thing to think about too... is with such a strong and large federal government, we've really streamlined the process of government corruption. The federal gov is our single point of failure. If big business wants to buy influence of government to squeeze out competition, they only have to go to one place to do it.. washington.
Putting more regulatory power back into state government hands, now makes it much harder and far less likely for one corporation to corrupt policy that affects the entire country. It will also make it much less cost effective for companies to purchase government influence, and much harder for them to actually see a return on the investment.
In cases where corruption happens, it will be far easier to mobilize movements of people within your state to clean up the mess, rather than trying to mobilize the entire country to clean up washington, when bad policies become entrenched.