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 Originally Posted by CoccoBill
Call me a skeptic, but I haven't seen many tobacco companies go out of business, even with harsh government regulations.
Because they haven't done what you suggested. Additionally, the "harsh" government regulations are nothing of the sort. The regulations have created a zero competition space. Big Tobacco would be powerless relative to where it is now if the barriers to competition created by regulations were not so incredibly high.
So I think I'll just go about my business selling Hello Kitty vanilla-bonbon flavored healtharettes to (private) preschoolers. Actually I might start a couple preschools myself to put my excess liquid assets to good use, free cigs for the first semester for all 3-year contracts!
This not working aside, what you're suggesting is that an unaccountable entity should do this instead of accountable entities.
On a more serious note, governments need popular vote to keep their business running, a government that does not allow this is a flawed one.
The amount of accountability this engenders is a tiny fraction relative to the accountability the market engenders.
You can vote once biyearly or you can vote lots of times every day. You can vote for something extremely vague or you can vote for specific clear things.
By now, we're back in circles. This topic is hardly even debatable. People adore extolling the virtues of freedom for every aspect of their lives except the ones they've been hammered into believing otherwise.
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