[quote=harvey]The constitution gives the power to regulate commerce so I don’t see how that would not give them the power to tell people what they can and cannot buy.[/quote]
And, there you go. You think they have the right to tell people what they can and cannot buy and I don’t. Sometimes the purpose of a discussion is to get to a point where you disagree and just agree to disagree.
Personally, I believe that “regulate commerce” means to ensure that the transactions between individuals are not violating property rights or breaching contractual obligations.
[quote=harvey]The rich don’t own the poor today, certainly not like the slave labor conditions that existed in the late 19th century. In all the Ron Paul arguments I hear they always avoid discussing that time period in history as if it never happened.[/quote]
Probably because nobody on either side of Ron Paul think that is a good idea or is going to happen again.
[quote=harvey]The rich are getting richer today but I don’t see how Ron Paul’s policies would reverse that trend. In fact history teaches us that it would accelerate it.[/quote]
If these ideas have, as you say, never been tested, then how can history suggest that these ideas would accelerate this problem ?
You, and many others continue to, incorrectly, equate Ron Paul’s ideas with the idea that there should be zero recourse for corporations. Get that notion out of your head, please. It isn’t correct.
I believe that inappropriate government support of corporations would, for the most part, disappear and thus the corporations would lose a huge advantage. That’s the thing to realize.
