No sane business owner(s) would ever feel unpatriotic towards an economically free country. The only thing that could lead to disloyalty or lack of “economic patriotism†would be the failure of a country’s government to ensure justice, private property and equal treatment under the law. If businesses are pulling away from America, then maybe that’s what our political leaders should be looking at, and addressing. For the leader of a government to talk about the alleged patriotic duty of a business to abide by the ideology and philosophical viewpoints of that government’s leader is to mix business and government together in a way totally, explicitly at odds with a free society... ...We constantly hear about the “benefits†and “freebies†corporations get; but (leaving aside subsidies, which are always wrong) they’re only getting back some of what was taken from them (selectively at that), things the government had no right to wrestle from them in the first place. Adding insult to injury, the government regulates all manner of private business decisions having nothing to do with force or fraud, but then (as everyone concedes) plays favorites with businesses they like more, and who contribute more to their campaigns for continued power. Is it any wonder businesses want to escape some of this, when they can? It’s not lack of economic patriotism. It’s relief. If people want more economic patriotism, then governments must provide more economic freedom. Nothing less will generate it.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:48:16 +0000
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