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If anything, what our government is doing is anything but capitalism.
Our government is over-regulating small companies like AC Propulsion, Commuter Cars, and Tesla to the point that they probably won't ever have the money to achieve mass production. Without mass production of electric cars, they will never be affordable and competitive at the same time. Foreign automakers who made electric cars even had their products restricted from ever entering the U.S. A few Chinese automakers have been able to get products in; they are making low-volume production runs of 80 mph capable electric cars and utility trucks, and these vehicles end up being restricted to 25 mph here in the U.S. because they don't pass our absurd crash standards. These same standards were lobbied into place by the Big 3 in the 1970s to shut out competition.
Further, all the welfare handouts to GM, Exxon, Standard Oil, Monsanto, Ford, Chrysler, Lockheed-Martin, Halliburton, Betchel, Raytheon, and all of them? Corporate welfare totals about $200 billion a year according to Public Citizen.
What our government is doing isn't capitalism. It is fascism. If the economy were truly capitalist, the smaller businesses would easily be able to put to the market vastly superior products to the shit big business peddles and these products would be affordable with all the overhead removed. The consumers would invariably chose those products, forcing the major companies to either change their methods or go out of business.
We don't have that in the least.
In a true free market, consumers would have the option to buy an electric car, farmers would be able to grow hemp without fear of reprecussions, and big business wouldn't have its hands in our tax dollars. In a true free market, companies wouldn't be able to spew their filthy pollution into your back yard without compensating you for the damages. In a true free market, the military industrial complex couldn't even exist.
Instead, we have what could more accurately be called a corporate police state. Big business is given all the rights of individual people, without the responsibilities, while individual people are seeing ever increasing responsibilities as their rights dwindle.
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