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In reply to the discussion: Heartbreaking.....I am Patient Zero in our New Economy [View all]Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Mind you they don't want this for themselves but for everyone else.
Businesses in this country are richly rewarded. The public benefits and awards are huge. They are allowed to compete in a mature consumer-driven economy. Business organizations allow individual investors to limit their risk/liability to the extent of their investment. Businesses are advantaged by having access to a relatively-educated workforce (I write this with a grimace), access to roads, waterways, railways, etc. that are paid for by public and/or private funds.
And in return they offer employees minimum wage and that's it. They want to hoard all the profits for themselves or the shareholders. No more sense that we are a "community" or a "nation".
I suggest that we, the people, can strip these owners of their limited liability through simple state law changes. This would expose each and every scumbag for the harms they cause employers and consumers including access to their PERSONAL fortunes. That would be sweet. See the Koch Brothers squirm as their mansions are emptied and they are shuffled off to low-income housing!!!!