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Goosey · 4536 days ago · link · · parent · post: Who’s the Boss? The Worst Post-Citizen’s United Ruling Yet
Absolutely true. Of course governments are quite capable of restrictions of civil rights and historically are the primary sources of such restrictions. I see one major difference: ideologically the purpose of a government is to serve it's citizens while the purpose of a corporation is to serve it's shareholders. Except in the case of coops this, this creates a shareholder/non-shareholder class distinction. It's for this reason I'm aligned with the idea that basic needs should be the domain of government.Libertarians, who believe that only government can restrict freedom, are blind to these [private sector] encroachments on liberty.