Big Government and Big Business

Salvete. I am Trygve Plaustrum, the conservative political blogger from California, and I look forward to voicing my opinion on this blog.

Today's topic is big government versus big business. Buy in large, liberals are strictly opposed to big business and ally with big government, while conservatives are strictly opposed to big government and ally with big business. Each side believes that their opponent is bigger and needs to be brought down.

So I was thinking the other day about big government and big business and I thought to myself, "Big government by its very definition must be greater than big business." No matter how small the government of a country is, it is still capable of bringing down business through regulating procedures or products, outlawing said items, and, at extreme cases, arresting the leaders of the business and directly seizing the business. When a business is able to counter these assaults by the government and become greater than the government, big business would not be greater than the government. Big business would be the government. At this point the debate between big business and big government is obsolete.

In America, I personally believe that big government is far greater than big business. The American people have already seen the United States government take over businesses (General Motors), enact and enforce regulations, and tax corporations. The United States government has authority. Big business does not. The United States government has a military. Big business does not. The United States government can enact laws and has the final say in interpreting them. Big business cannot and does not, respectively.

Besides, governments often owe little to no allegiance to its people. Dictatorships, for example, do not care about the plights of their people. Businesses, however, must appeal to a consumer base in order to make a profit and survive. Very often this consumer base is ordinary citizens, either in a country or around the world. We see in the American government how unelected officials are gaining more and more power.

So my opinion is that the American people should tackle big government first and perhaps big business later. Big government is the problem as well as a source of power in America. Limiting big government would ensure that power is kept at a minimum while ensuring that big business will still be limited as well. Big government must be stopped before it becomes unstoppable.

Thanks for reading. I am excited to see four views for my blog, including one from Saudi Arabia. I hope to write another blog soon. Have a nice day.