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People bitch about government, taxes and apparently terrorism but never bitch about business.
In the United States of America, business, with the aid and assistance of government holds complete monopolistic control over every means of human subsistence except air - they haven't figured out how to prevent you from breathing it, in order to charge you for it. Conservatives would argue that it is the God given right of business to control all means of subsistence because doing otherwise would be Godless Communism. Liberal opposition might be - well if we can't ensure that business charge a fair price then let us subsidize (bribe) business.
One of the best examples of this folly is exemplified by the post WWII creation of milk boards. Cow milk, for all intents and purposes, is an absolutely irrelevant and unecessary substance to anyone or anything except baby cows. None the less a businessman discovered that he could buy a cow, feed it grass, squeeze it's tits and sell the liquid to people dumb enough to buy it; and then after other businessmen discovered that people were buying it, dairy became a popular business.
No need to plow the fields for anything but cow corn and no one complained about smelling cow shit either? And then the more established milk sellers, now being all society like, complained to government that these newcomers were selling their milk at too low a price. But isn't that the way God's business is supposed to operate? People buy the cheapest? And competition - the American way - fosters the lowest prices?
Well, there was this man named Benjamin Cardozo who was the 1st Italian allowed into United States Government and was appointed to the US Supreme Court. Legislating from the bench he ruled that it is Constitutional for the government to set a price floor on milk but that it would be unconstitutional to set a price ceiling. And thus using an absolutely unnecessary animal substance, apparently under the ideology of it won't kill ya right away will it, the US against Them society was born. Business, was now granted feudal privilege to have and hold a preferred position over you, the mere human being; and of course bovine tit juice became a vital National Security Interest, so vital in fact that Conservatives argued, why can't we apply the same law to rent control?
