Apparently you think that people should be allowed to pollute as they so please without any restrictions at all.
Apparently you haven't asked the right questions and you need your assumptions to conduct a discussion.
So you think that government should not influence anyone on anything?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Pretty explicit, that.
The notion that taxation = theft is a sign of serious mental issues. Inflation = theft. Get it right.
The notion that someone can't understand that taxation for unconstitutional, and hence, illegal, government mandates is theft indeed a sign of their willingness to moon at the window hoping Peter Pan will take them to Never Never Land.
I present the world as it is. The horse drinks of it, or not.
ardly. Arguing in the context of a free market ignores what a free market looks like.
Well, the first thing a free market would look like is a whole bunch of Democrat-voting goonionistas in Michigan pounding the pavement looking for work, while real car companies who weren't raped by the goonions were picking over the corpses of GM and Chrysler looking for deals, which in turn would lead to Americans being able to buy cars they want to purchase without being robbed by their government to subsidize a car company and a car company's products they simply do not want.
The will of the American people in the matter of how much of their money should go to General Motors was decided by the free market. Enough Americans decided they didn't want their money going to GM that GM was facing bankruptcy. There was no need for the government to violate the will of the majority by bailing out GM and Chrysler. The People had already established bankruptcy courts that had the laws and the expertise to handle what needed to be done for GM and Chrysler.
It was that simple, back when America was free.
That depends. Do they view taxation as theft? :roll:
If they don't view taxes taken from them to pay for unconstitutional and hence illegal government activity as theft, they're not capable of thought.
I wasn't aware that businesses were citizens. Can you point that out to me?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Businessmen are citizens. They're even, in most cases in the US, AMERICAN citizens.
But in the process, they have indeed picked a winner.
Oh, duh.
Meanwhile, that doesn't mean your argument isn't silliness hiding as emptiness that I've wasted enough time on.
Guess what, just in case you haven't figured it out, the Constitution not only authorizes the Federal government to defend the nation, it requires the federal government to defend the nation, and that means the government has to buy the tools to do the job. So grow up and figure out that a car company doesn't have the same constitutional standing as a firm providing nuclear submarines to the Navy.