If businesspeople want to get involved in politics, they should have the courage to run for office like anybody else. Lurking on the sidelines and waiving money around is really lame and laughable.

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WalterBright 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If your business is large enough, if you don't donate to politicians, they will target your business.

The government is massive and inserts itself into business operations all the time. The inevitable results happen.

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AvAn12 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because food was unsafe. Read (or read about) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair if you want to get creeped out about the food industry in the 1930s before regulations

	▲	WalterBright an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Are you suggesting that government use of power is always benevolent? Consider the enormous difficulty and expense people in Palisades have getting permits to rebuild. Yes, I read "The Jungle". It's a work of fiction, not a documentary. So is "The Grapes of Wrath".

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somenameforme 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are people who couldn't care less about political power, but want certain laws passed, and have lots of money. And then there those who couldn't care less about much of anything besides gaining political power and see money and quid quo pro as means to achieve that.

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AvAn12 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Then those people are on the sidelines like every other citizen. Play the game or be a spectator. Nobody gets to have it both ways.

	▲	Joker_vD 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have very interesting ideas on how the world should be run. A pity that others ignore them and just do whatever suits them better.