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I like everything about their platform except this;
I just cannot get behind that. I could see breaking up monopolies, taxing medium and large corporations way more, but seizing, nah.
All corporations should be eliminated or owned by the government, with only owner operator businesses being unowned by the government.
Quite frankly profit motive is the most destructive force in human history, eliminating it should be the number one priority for any human wanting to continue humanity.
I can even agree with corporations being eliminated but not owned by the government. The government can also be corrupted by profits. And has over and over again in recent history.
At least its democratically controlled if it's controlled by the government (well, once we establish an actual democracy first) and the profits are given to all of us.
Seizing the 100 biggest companies seems like a good way for the government to end up running a lot of things it doesn't actually want to be responsible for running, and by extension end up just running those things directly into the ground or selling them off to be privatized again
There are things I think make a compelling argument for seizing, but not based on size, that seems like an awful idea. I live in NC, where there's one company that provides power giving them a local monopoly. Also they love fracking. Duke Energy can go suck a dick. THAT kind of situation makes a strong case for seizing private entities and making them publicly funded infrastructure. Also taxpayers have funded so much internet infrastructure that we never actually got, that should probably also be national infrastructure 😅
It's the coolest part of her platform.