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If a government chooses to create or modify laws to attract business that is one thing and is entirely acceptable, so long as the laws are applied to everyone in the state equally and fairly.....

....When government gets involved in capitalism to the point that it treats one business differently than another, its no longer capitalism.


Not really. States have the right to do what they want through legislatures that create/pass laws that are deemed justifiable. To eliminate that would allow for eventual monopolies in a pure capitalistic society.

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How is it remotely fair for Boeing to only have to pay a tiny fraction of the property taxes that all of the mom and pop and small and medium businesses in SC have to pay, as one small example?


Because the smaller businesses gain a benefit from Boeing's presence. Perhaps you haven't been involved in the sale of products to users across the spectrum. Normally, the larger the purchasing power, the lower the price..... just another part of capitalism, and it can apply to the contributors of a state economy as well.

The idea that everyone should be treated the same in an economic society is more one of socialism than capitalism..... just on the other end of the financial equation.

Frank

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