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Generally, yes, but they are also congenitally eager to spend government money as long as there's a company that can profit from it. Corporations good, those other people bad. That's it.
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Oh, absolutely. But I think that derives from the govt being such a large and easy purchaser of what corporations sell. It's also a market of last resort. Private economy isn't buying enough of what you're selling? Well, just lobby the govt to buy it. And set up a bunch of idiotic procurement rules that work as barriers to entry against smaller competition!
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I know you were trying to make that sound bad, but ya didn't.
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I was trying to make it sound accurate. The devil in the details there is "lot." I have no issue with progressive taxation. I just have a problem with where brackets start progressing most aggressively. The heart surgeon down the street who makes $700k but has $300k in student loans isn't Croesus.
Another "devil" there is who gets to decide what defines personal dignity? Bernie seems to think a free college degree is needed to have dignity. I'm not sure about that. When you get into "social justice," which is really just "economic justice," you find endless advocates with endless definitions of what the govt has a duty to provide to people, or how much it must police commerce to even the playing field for people and winnow inequality. What star chamber gets to decide what's "just"?
